What are Communicable Diseases?
ANY CONDITION THAT INTERFERES WITH THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF THE BODY OR MIND
What is disease?
A COMBINATION OF BODY DEFENSES MADE UP OF CELLS, TISSUES, AND ORGANS THAT FIGHTS PATHOGENS IN YOUR BODY
What is Immune System?
THE SYMPTOMS OF this ARE RUNNY NOSE, A SORE THROAT, AND SNEEZING
What is a cold?
GOOD this HELPS LIMIT THE PATHOGENS THAT YOU ENCOUNTER
What is hygiene?
NOT ALL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES ARE
What is curable?
A DISEASE THAT CAN BE SPREAD TO A PERSON FROM ANOTHER PERSON, ANIMAL OR OBJECT
What are Communicable Diseases?
EACH RESPONSE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM ATTACKS A PARTICULAR PATHOGEN
What is Specific Response?
HEPATITIS B AND C CAN PERMANENTLY DAMAGE this
What is the Liver?
AVOID this WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE STILL CONTAGIOUS
What is close contact?
ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR MOST STDs
What are vaccines?
GERMS THAT CAUSE DISEASES
What are pathogens?
THE BODY RESPONDS THE SAME NO MATTER WHAT FOREIGN BODY ENTERS THE BODY
What is Nonspecific Response?
TUBERCULOSIS IS A BACTERIAL DISEASE THAT USUALLY AFFECTS this
What are the lungs?
NEVER this WITH EATING UTENSILS, GLASSES, OR PERSONAL ITEMS
What is share?
HIV IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT ATTACKS AND KILLS
What are T Cells?
SIMPLE ONE-CELLED ORGANISMS THAT ARE FOUND IN EVERY ENVIRONMENT AND CAN BE HELPFUL
What is bacteria?
A SECONDARY SYSTEM THAT HELPS THE BODY FIGHT PATHOGENS
What is the Lymphatic System?
PEOPLE WITH this HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING, A FEVER, AND CHILLS
What is pneumonia?
YOU NEED TO DO this WITH YOUR MOUTH AND NOSE WHEN YOU SNEEZE OR COUGH
What is cover?
STDs CAN MAKE A PERSON this OR STERILE
What is infertile?
SPREADING BY this WITH OTHERS HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DRINKS FROM THE SAME GLASS AS AN INFECTED PERSON
What is Indirect Contact?
THE BODY’S RESPONSE TO INJURY OR DISEASE, RESULTING IN A CONDITION OF SWELLING, PAIN, HEAT AND REDNESS
What is Inflammation?
WHEN PEOPLE HAVE A PAINFUL THROAT, FEVER, AND SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES IN THE NECK, THEY NEED TO BE TESTED FOR this
What is strep throat?
KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM
What are eyes, nose, and mouth?
AS SOON AS A PERSON IS INFECTED WITH HIV, THE VIRUS BEGINS DAMAGING THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM, EVEN IF THERE ARE
What are no symptoms?