Communicable Diseases

Communicable Disease 1

100

If you looked at your kitchen and bathroom counters under a microscope, you would see millions of these...

germs

200

If you develop an illness from a pathogen, it is called this.....

communicable disease

300

These are sometimes needed from time to time in order to maintain immunity from disease......

booster shots

400

Germs are a type of microbe referred to as 

pathogens

Communicable Disease 2

100

This keeps most of the pathogens out of our bodies.....

skin

200

The 2 most common kinds of pathogens that cause communicable diseases are.......

bacteria and viruses

300

Often referred to as the "flu"

influenza

400

Common illnesses caused by viruses, especially in the Winter......

colds

Communicable Disease 3

100

Germs often enter our bodies through this.....

a cut or scratch

200

Antibiotics are typically not effective against this type of pathogen....

virus

300

This is often referred to as the "kissing disease"

mono

400

There are 3 varieties of this disease: A, B and C

Hepatitis

Communicable Disease 4

100

____________ are smaller than bacteria

viruses

200

Because antibiotics are generally ineffective in treating viruses, doctors use ______________ so people will become immune and not develop the disease.

vaccines

300

A mild childhood disease that causes headache, a slight fever and itchy rash.......

Chicken Pox

400

A small parasitic insect that can live on a human host....

Lice