The Amazing Immune System!
The body's first line of defense
What is the skin?
This age group has the highest rate of infection
What is 15-24 year olds?
This bacterial STD is very old and develops in 4 stages
What is syphilis?
This sexually transmitted virus causes genital warts
What is HPV?
What are the most effective ways to protect yourself?
Limit your number of partners, have the conversation (much more likely to happen in a serious, committed relationship)
These 2 vocabulary words indicate the invader that can make a person sick and the protein made by the body to specifically fight it.
What are pathogen and antibodies
How often any sexually active person needs to get tested for an STD
What is every year and after every new sexual partner
1 in 20 American women have this infection
What is Chlamydia?
What AIDS stands for
What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
the 3 ways STDs are transmitted
What are bodily fluids, contact of sores and childbirth
These things happen in the body as a second line of defense
What is 1 in 4?
The treatment for bacterial STDs if it is diagnosed
What are antibiotics
There are more than 150 strains for this virus
What is HPV
This causes you to be 2 to 5 times more likely to be infected with HIV if exposed
How vaccines work
What is injecting a weakened form of the pathogen so that the body will produce antibodies to it
What is viral being incurable while bacterial can be treated and cured?
The name for the long term damage caused in women by Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease?
This is the only STI that can be transmitted through saliva, even if no sore is present
What is genital herpes?
the effectiveness of condoms in preventing STDs
only cover a small portion of the body and therefore offer limited protection
Two types of disorders to the Immune System
What are allergies, autoimmune diseases, or AIDS
The most common viral infection and the two most common bacterial infections
What are HPV and Chlamydia and Gonorrhea?
Chlamydia and Gonorrhea often have no symptoms, but when there are symptoms it can look like these (name 3)
What is abnormal discharge, painful or swollen private parts, burning while urinating, sores like blisters or ulcers
The life expectancy of someone with treated versus untreated AIDS
What is 71 and 32
Why Pelvic Inflammatory Disease can cause infertility
causes scarring in the fallopian tubes