Communicable Diseases
These are microorganisms that cause communicable diseases.
What are Pathogens?
This is a complex disease that typically involves an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.
What is Cancer?
This is the practice of covering your mouth and nose with a tissue while coughing or sneezing, or sneezing into your sleeve.
What is Respiratory Etiquette?
These are substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria.
What is Antibiotics?
These are medical conditions that cannot be spread through person-to-person contact, but develop as a result of heredity, environment, and lifestyle factors.
What are Noncommunicable Diseases?
This is a viral infection of the respiratory system.
What is Influenza?
This is a medical emergency in which flow of blood to the heart is restricted, causing the heart to beat irregularly and inefficiently.
What is Heart Attack?
These are the most common forms of cancer.
What is Skin Cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer?
This is a mass of abnormal cells.
What is a Tumor?
This is a viral or bacterial infection that affects the throat.
What is Tonsillitis?
This is a way a disease gets from one organism to another; may be direct or indirect.
What is Method of Transmission?
This is a disease resulting from the body's inability to regulate glucose.
What is Diabetes Mellitus?
This is foot safety practices that maintain the safety of food you handle and eat; including refrigerating and freezing certain foods, cooking meat thoroughly, and washing fruits and vegetables.
What is Food Sanitation?
This is a condition someone can develop after coming into contact with humans, animals, or plants infected with the disease.
What are Communicable Diseases?
This is a type of Diabetes that is associated with obesity.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
This is a viral or bacterial infection that causes inflammation of part of the eye.
What is Conjunctivitis?
This is a condition that results in inflammation of the joints, causing pain and stiffness.
What is Arthritis?
This is 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 Vaccine?
This term refers to the recurrence of a disease, in which signs and symptoms return after a period of remission.
What is Relapse?
This is a medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted, injuring or killing brain cells.
What is Stroke?
This is a common viral infection that spreads through kissing or by sharing certain objects; also known as the kissing disease.
What is Mononucleosis?
What is Autoimmune Disease?
These are the most common noncommunicable diseases. Name 3.
What are Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Disease, Arthritis and Diabetes?
This is a condition in which the walls of the blood vessels thicken, harden and become inflexible.
What is Arteriosclerosis?
This is a condition in which fatty deposits called plaque develop in the walls of blood vessels and block the normal flow of blood
What is Atherosclerosis?