Disease
A sudden rise of a disease in a particular area.
What is an epidemic?
Tiny organisms that enter the human body and are often responsible for us contracting infectious diseases.
What is a pathogen?
Covering your nose or mouth during a cough or sneeze.
What is respiratory hygiene?
A type of microorganism.
What is a pathogen?
What is a non-pathogen?
The most effective way to prevent the spread of infect.
What is handwashing?
A disease that is residing in a group of people persistently for longer periods of time.
What is an endemic?
Skin contact and contaminated food relation.
What is pathogen spreading?
Not recapping needles.
Using safety needles.
Disposing of sharps in the proper container.
What is sharps safety?
Does not have any cells and only consists of proteins that have folded in the wrong shape.
What are prions?
Hand washing or sanitizing our hands.
What is hand hygeine?
A sudden rise of a disease that spreads throughout multiple countries in the world.
What is a pandemic?
Symptoms of infectious diseases.
What is a fever?
What is swelling of body parts?
What is the CDC?
What is the innate immune system?
Substances that can be used on the skin to inhibit growth.
What is an antiseptic?
What is stopping disease from spreading further?
What is treating people who have it?
Types of pathogens.
What is bacteria?
What is a virus?
What is protozoa?
What is fungi?
What are prions?
What are animal parasites?
Gloves, gowns, mouth, nose, and eye protection.
What is PPE?
May be an animal which lives inside/on their hose and feeds off of what their host eats.
What are animal parasites?
Substance that is used to kill pathogens but can not be used on the skin.
What is a disinfectent?
A disease spread by bacteria that mainly affects the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
A way pathogens are transmitted.
What are bodily fluids?
What is talking and sneezing?
What is eating and drinking?
How instruments and devices are sterilized.
What is an autoclave?
Primary physical barrier features that could potentially prevent pathogens.
What is skin?
What is sweat?
What are eyelashes?
What are tears?
What is nostril hair?
What are vaginal secretions?
What is ear wax?
A process that destroys pathogens.
What is sterilization?