Disease Dictionary
Candy
Are you Nervous?
Goodbye, Mrs. Wright!
Outbreak!
100

This disease can be contracted by spending time outdoors and is a vector-borne disease

Lyme Disease

100

This is the type of candy Mrs. Wright offers the 2-for-1 special for.

Dum-Dums

100

This is the technical name for a nerve cell.

Neuron

100
Mrs. Wright usually brings this drink to school everyday. 

Diet Coke

100
This food was responsible for the Outbreak in Activity 3.2.

Clam Chowder

200

This disease is also known as Scarlet Fever and leaves you with a sore throar

Strep Throat

200

This is the only chocolate candy Mrs. Wright has ever offered.

Hershey Kiss!

200

The brain and spinal cord are known as this part of the nervous system.

Central Nervous System

200

This activity is Mrs. Wright's favorite hobby.

Running.

200

This is known as a poison to your nervous system. (Starts with the letter N).

Neurotoxin.

300

This virus is vector-borne and affects pregnant women, can be detrimental to babies.

Zika Virus

300

Mrs. Wright handed out this candy to cover up the smell of the brains!

Mints - are mints a candy?

300

The nerves are known as this part of the nervous system. 

Peripheral Nervous System

300

Mrs. Wright uses this adverb all of the time about how students should be working. (Starts with the letter D).

Diligently

300

Lobe of the brain that is responsible for the sense of sight. 

Occipital Lobe

400
A disease you can contract from undercooked eggs.

Salmonella

400

This is the flavor of Dum-Dum Mrs. Wright predicted would be left over at the end of the trimester.

Peach Mango

400

This verb is used to describe the lack of function in neurons due to a disease. (Starts with the letter I)

Impair

400

Mrs. Wright started at Prairie Grove in this month of 2025. 

November.

400

This lobe is responsible for processing hearing/sound. 

Temporal Lobe.

500

The three types of microorganisms that were responsible for all of the diseases in the Disease Dictionary. 

Bacteria, Virus, Fungus

500
This flavor of Dum-Dum has the most suckers left behind. 

Cream Soda

500

This is the name of the coating that covers axons. (Two words - start with letters M & S).

Myelin Sheath

500

This is how an attack rate is calculated. 

(Number of sick people that are food) / (Total number of people that are good) x 100