Communicable Disease Category
Flu, Mono, and Measles
What is Viruses?
Smallest Disease-causing Pathogen
Need a host to sustain life
Can not be treated with antibiotics
What is a Virus?
Picking up pathogens from infected person
EX. Kissing
When you go hiking you should wear
The length of time when a disease can spread form person to person.
Strep Throat, Gonorrhea, and Pinkeye
What is Bacteria?
Resembles bacteria, but multiplies like viruses
Enters the body from bites
What is Rickettsia?
An insect like a mosquito or a flea
What is a Vector?
You should do this as many times a day as possible.
What is wash your hands?
______ have weaker immune systems, meaning they are contagious for longer.
Who are kids?
Athlete's Foot and Ringworm
What is Fungi?
Feeds on organic material
lives on nails, skin, and hair
Decomposer
What is Fungi?
Pathogens are spread through the air or surfaces
EX. Drinking from the same glass
Occurs when you receive antibodies from another human or animal.
Malaria, Dysentery, Sleeping Sickness
What is Protozoans?
1 cell organism
You need some
Reproduce by Binary Fission
What is Bacteria?
Water or Food
Improperly store or undercook meat
Bloodborne
What is Other Contacts?
Develops when you are exposed to antigens from invading pathogens.
What is the inflammatory response?
Typhus, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
What is Rickettsia
One-celled Animal
Some live in water
Found on land in decaying matter
What is Protozoa?
Occurs when a pathogen enters the body.
What is Sickness
A preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that are introduced into the body to stimulate an immune response.
What is a Vaccine?
Is a protein that acts against a specific antigen.
What is an Antibody?