Basic Infectious Diseases
This disease require people to take yearly shots
What is the flu?
Through this process, cells produce energy, carbon dioxide, and water from glucose and oxygen
What is cellular respiration?
The COVID-19 virus is transmitted mainly from _____ to _____, through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes
What is person to person?
This disease ravaged Europe during the 1300s
What is The Bubonic Plague/The Black Death?
This prefix refers to the skin
What is derm?
This organ is referred to as the “organ of smell” and it functions along with the respiratory system
What is the nose?
This disease was originally blamed on the LGBT community, there is no known cure
What is HIV or AIDS?
Water travels from high to low concentration
What is osmosis?
This U.S. COVID-19 vaccine is an adenovirus (or viral) vector vaccine, in contrast to mRNA technology
What is the Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine?
During what year was the most recent flu epidemic?
What was 1918?
This prefix refers to the stomach
What is gastro?
This organ is present in the skull and controls most functions in the body
What is the brain?
This highly contagious disease causes an itchy, blister-like rash on the skin; There is a known vaccine.
What are chickenpox?
All the chemical reactions in the cell are collectively called ___
What is metabolism?
To prevent the spread of germs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC recommends for you to wash your hands with soap and water for at least ____ seconds
What is 20 seconds?
Through which means did the Bubonic Plague spread?
What are rats/fleas?
This suffix is used to refer to a cell
What is -cyte?
This organ breaks down fats by making bile and is also responsible for enzyme activations
What is the liver?
Humans usually get infected from this disease due to consuming foods contaminated with feces from an infected animal
What is salmonella?
When cells engulf large particles, they are performing ____
What is phagocytosis?
Length of isolation after known exposure to COVID-19
What is 2 weeks?
Which disease did Europeans introduce to the Americas in the 1500s?
What are smallpox/measles/flu?
This prefix is used to refer to bone
What is osteo?
This hollow, muscular organ is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body
What is the heart?
This rare disease is spread by ticks
What is Lyme disease?
A vacuole inside the cell fuses with the cell membrane to release its contents
What is exocytosis?
The country with the most COVID-19 deaths worldwide
What is the United States?
What percent of the Native American population died from European disease?
What is 90%?
This suffix refers to a removal surgery
What is ectomy?
This organ is responsible for producing blood cells, storing blood cells and destroying damaged blood cells
What is the spleen?