Transmission
What is the difference between prevention and treatment?
Prevention keeps us from getting a disease and treatment is how we try to cure it (or slow it's spread) once we have it
What type of disease can you get from drinking contaminated water?
Cholera
What does a vaccine do?
Stimulates body's own immune system to protect against future infection or disease
Eating contaminated meat is an example of what kind of transmission?
Food borne
What are 2 approaches to disease prevention?
Any 2 of: immunizations, regular checkups, healthy diet, active lifestyle, avoiding environmental exposure, etc
What disease can you get from mosquito bites?
West Nile Virus
What is an epidemic?
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease
Lyme disease is an example of what kind of transmission?
Insect borne
What is an antibiotic?
a medication that kills bacteria and prevents it's growth
What disease did people get from eating contaminated beef in the UK the early 1990s?
Mad cow disease
What is generally more dangerous, a virus or a bacteria?
Virus because they do not respond to antibiotics and cannot always be fully immunized for
What is an example of a disease with fecal-oral transmission?
What are the two main approaches to disease treatment?
Modern medicine and alternative medicine
What is a virus that can lead to the development of a non-communicable disease?
HPV (Human papillomavirus) which can lead to cervical cancer
What vaccine has saved the most lives in the last 50 years?
Measles
HIV/AIDS is an example of what kind of transmission?
Blood borne
Give an example of 2 reliable sources and 1 unreliable source for disease prevention & treatment info
Various
What STI, if left untreated, can make you go blind?
Chlamydia