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Infectious Disease
Fighting Infectious Disease
Noninfectious Disease
Disease Control
Health and Illness
100
An organism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
100
The body system that fights disease.
What is the immune system?
100
A noninfectious disease that occurs when one kind of cell grows out of control in your body.
What is cancer?
100
Your body's ability to fight disease without enlisting the immune system.
What is resistance?
100
Signs or feelings of a disease.
What are symptoms?
200
This is the smallest kind of pathogen.
What is a virus?
200
The important blood cells that are a part of your immune system.
What are white blood cells.
200
A noninfectious disease that affects your joints.
What is arthritis?
200
An important part of staying well that requires soap and water.
What is washing your hands?
200
An important aspect of resistance that includes deep breathing and releasing tension.
What is managing stress?
300
These are one-celled living things that need food and water and can cause disease.
What are bacteria?
300
Chemicals made by the body to help fight disease.
What are antibodies.
300
The noninfectious disease that can be treated with insulin.
What is diabetes?
300
An important part of avoiding disease that requires toothpaste and a toothbrush.
What is brushing your teeth?
300

A type of noninfectious disease that can be the result of poor diet, lack of exercise, or heredity, and is a leading cause of death for adults in the U.S.

What is heart disease?

400

Water that has dangerous pathogens in it.

What is contaminated water?

400
When your body can defend itself against certain pathogens before they have the chance to attack.
What is immunity?
400
A noninfectious disease that can cause tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, and wheezing.
What is asthma?
400

use of vaccines

What is a way to control spread of viruses?

400
What cigarettes and the sun have in common.
What is cancer?
500

A growth of pathogens in the body.

What is an infection?

500
Substances made to prevent certain diseases from entering your body.
What are vaccines?
500

A protein that helps the body to fight with invaders.

What is an antibody?

500

Cells that virus invades and takes over

What is a host?

500
A sticky fluid that coats the body's passageways.
What is mucus?