Infectious Diseases
How are the 4 ways infectious diseases caused?
Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Parasites
What is an example of a hereditary risk?
Cancer passed through family members.
infectious diseases that have become increasingly common in humans within the past 20 years or threatens to become more common in the near future.
emerging disease
diseases caused by organisms or viruses that enter and multiply within the human body.
Infectious Diseases
Organisms such as yeasts, molds, and mushrooms
They grow best in warm, dark, moist areas.
Examples include: athlete’s foot, ringworm, etc.
Fungi
diseases caused by organisms or viruses that enter and multiply within the human body.
infectious disease
Cancer caused from smoking would be an example of what type of health risk?
Behavioral Risk
True or false; emerging diseases can re-emerge multiple times?
True
simple, single celled microorganisms.
They can live in air, soil, food and in and on the bodies of plants and animals (including humans).
strep throat, food poisoning, Lyme disease,
single celled organisms that are much larger and more complex than bacteria.
They have the ability to move through fluids in search of food.
Examples include: malaria, African sleeping sickness, etc.
Protozoans
Which of the following is not a pathogen?
Virus
Fungi
Inflammatory
Protozoans
Bacteria
Inflammatory
Littering would be an example of what type of health risk?
Environmental risk
What are the two ways an emerging disease can be transmitted?
Direct person-person contact
Eating contaminated food or handling it without precaution
are the smallest pathogen. They are about 100 times smaller than bacteria.
Unlike bacteria, it can multiply only after entering a living cell.
This then takes over the cell’s reproductive mechanisms, resulting in cell damage or death.
the common cold, chickenpox, the flu,
Viruses
risk factors for certain diseases that is inherited from the genes of a person’s parents, and their parents before them.
Hereditary risk factors
What do you mainly need to do everyday to prevent infectious diseases?
Wash hands with soap and water
Which of the following would be a behavioral factor for developing skin cancer?
Not applying sun screen
What it it called when a disease suddenly starts to spread?
are things in a person’s surroundings that may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic disease.
Environmental risk factors
are choices or actions that a person takes that increases their chances of developing a chronic disease.
Behavioral Risk Factors
Which one is not one of the 5 most common infectious diseases?
Malaria
Tuberculosis
The Common Cold
Hepatitis B
The Common Cold
Which of the following is NOT a cause of chronic diseases?
behavioral factors
bacteria and viruses
heredity
environmental factors
bacteria and viruses
How is Ebola transmitted?
Physical contact
when diseases are spread through some form of contact with a person who has the disease.
Direct Contact
when diseases are spread without any physical contact with a person who has the disease.
Indirect Contact