Communicable Diseases
These are microorganisms that cause communicable diseases.
What are pathogens?
The most common of the STI's.
What is the human papillomavirus (HPV)?
This is the virus that infects and kills cells, weakening the body's immune system.
What is H.I.V.?
These are medical conditions that cannot be spread through person-to-person contact, but develop as a result of heredity, environment, and lifestyle factors, also known as noninfectious diseases.
What are noncommunicable diseases?
Name 3 times when you should wash your hands?
after using the bathroom
after changing a diaper
before preparing and eating food
after contact with blood or bodily fluids
after blowing your nose
after handling waste of trash
after handling uncooked meat and fish
when your hands are visibly dirty
A common viral infection that spreads through kissing or by sharing certain objects; also known as the kissing disease.
What is mononucleosis?
This is a commitment to refrain from sexual activity; only method that is 100% effective in preventing STI's.
What is abstinence?
An often fatal disease in which the body cannot fight infections and diseases.
What is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?
The medical emergency in which flow of blood to the heart is restricted, causing the heart to beat irregularly and inefficiently.
What is a heart attack?
When washing your hands, rub them together, scrubbing every surface, for ___________ seconds.
What is 20 seconds?
A viral or bacterial infection that causes inflammation of part of the eye; also known as pinkeye.
What is conjunctivitis?
The late stages of this S.T.I. can lead to damage to the brain (dementia), paralysis, fatal damage to the heart, liver, and blood vessels, and ultimately death.
What is Syphilis?
Conditions that occur when pathogens take advantage of a weakened body; the cause of death in HIV/AIDS cases.
What are opportunistic infections?
A medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted injuring or killing brain cells.
What is a stroke?
This is the practice of covering your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, or sneezing into your sleeve.
What is respiratory etiquette?
These are drugs that target and kill pathogenic bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
What are the steps in using the refusal skills strategy?
1. Say No
2. Say Why Not
3. Offer an alternate activity
4. Walk Away
HIV-positive people whose infection progresses to AIDS slowly.
What are long-term non-progressors?
A complex disease that typically involves an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.
What is cancer?
The food safety practices that maintain the safety of food you handle and eat; includes refrigerating and freezing certain foods, cooking meat thoroughly, and washing vegetables and fruits.
This is the way a disease gets from one organism to another; may be direct or indirect.
What is method of transmission?
What barrier method can be used to reduce the risk of contracting an S.T.I. through sexual contact?
What are latex condoms?
The treatment for HIV/AIDS in which a cocktail of three drugs is given to interfere with HIV reproduction.
What is anti-retroviral therapy (ART)?
A condition that causes the body's immune system to attack and damage the joints.
What is autoimmune disease?
A substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of a pathogen that is injected into a person to train his or her immune system to eliminate the live pathogen.
What is a vaccine?