Disorder? I hardly know her
When the immune system overreacts to substances in the environment.
What is Allergic Disorders?
This type of immunity includes your skin and mucous membranes that line your mouth, esophagus, and intestinal tract.
What is Natural or Innate Immunity?
Another name for a white blood cell
A virus is a non-cellular particle that can cause disease. It is made up of what things?
What is protein capsid and genetic material (DNA or RNA)?
When a disease affects multiple countries or continents
What is pandemic?
Part or all of the immune system is not working properly
What is immunodeficiency disorders?
Immunity that develops throughout our lives as we are exposed to different antigens
What is Active or Adaptive Immunity?
Largest of the white blood cells that engulf and destroy pathogens
What are monocytes?
Non-viral particle that is only made of proteins and can cause things like mad cow disease
When cases of an infection caused by a specific pathogen has been reduced to zero in the entire world
What is eradication?
Disorder where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy organs or tissues
What is autoimmune disorders?
This test can measure the amount of antibodies in your blood.
What is the ELISA test?
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY Bonus points if you know what the name stands for)
White blood cells that respond to a parasitic infection
What are eosinophils?
What is eubacteria?
A mosquito biting you and transmitting measles is an example of this type of transmission
What is indirect transmission? (vector-borne)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This type of cancer is common in adults but rarely seen in children.
What is Lymphoma?
Immunizations or vaccinations are an example of this type of immunity.
What is Adaptive or Active Immunity?
White blood cells that make antibodies
Scientist who discovered the germ theory of disease
Who is Robert Koch?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In America, the Spanish Flu infected roughly 30,000,000 and killed nearly 610,000. What is the case fatality rate?
What is 2.03%?
What is diabetes?
In 1925, dogsled teams rallied to transport anti-toxin serum to Nome, Alaska. A raging diptheria outbreak occured here and could only be cured with this type of immunity.
What is Passive Immunity?
Any foreign material that causes an immune response
What is antigen?
HIV is a virus that uses reverse transcriptase to change its RNA into DNA. It must do this to blend in with the DNA of the host genome. HIV is considered what type of virus?
What is retrovirus?
Give a description of herd immunity
What is when a large number of the population is immune to a disease and can therefore protect those unable to be vaccinated?