Infectious Disease Response Card Review After each definition is read, write the correct vocabulary word.
This fungal disease is spread by contact with contaminated objects such as flip flops. Answer Answer
Athlete’s foot Next Definition Definition
This viral disease is spread by contact with infected persons or contaminated objects such as kissing or used tissues. Answer Answer
Flu Next Definition Definition
Protection against a disease by receiving antibodies made in another individual. Answer Answer
Passive immunity Next Definition Definition
An organism that causes a disease. Answer Answer
Pathogen Next Definition Definition
A chemical substance made by the body to help destroy an invading pathogen. Answer Answer
Antibody Next Definition Definition
Scientists worry that if this virus mutates, it could be passed from person to person and not just bird to person. Answer Answer
Avian bird flu Next Definition Definition
This viral disease is spread by contact with body fluids of infected persons. Answer Answer
Hepatitis Next Definition Definition
An organism that helps a disease spread. Answer Answer
Vector Next Definition Definition
This bacterial disease is spread by a bite from an infected tick. Answer Answer
Lyme disease Next Definition Definition
To change the genetic make-up of an organism. Answer Answer
Mutate Next Definition Definition
A small dose or a fragment of pathogen that is introduced to the human body to help the immune system fight disease. Answer Answer
Vaccine Next Definition Definition
An organism that is infected with and can transmit a disease- causing microbe to another living thing, even though the organism shows no symptoms of illness or disease. Answer Answer
Carrier Next Definition Definition
Active immunity to this disease is most often acquired by getting it when you were a child. Answer Answer
Chicken pox Next Definition Definition
A group of medicines used to kill or slow the growth of bacteria that cause disease. Answer Answer
Antibiotics Next Definition Definition
A substance that is designed to kill microbes before they can enter the body. Answer Answer
Antimicrobial products Next Definition Definition
This bacterial disease is spread by eating contaminated food. Answer Answer
Botulism Next Definition Definition
A disease that is spread by sexual contact with an infected person. Answer Answer
Sexually-transmitted disease Next Definition Definition
Protection against a disease acquired by being infected with the pathogen that causes the disease. Answer Answer
Active immunity Next Definition Definition
A disease that spreads over a wide geographic area. Answer Answer
Epidemic Next Definition Definition
An epidemic that spreads worldwide. Answer Answer
Pandemic Next Definition Definition
A category of diseases that can be spread from one person to another. Answer Answer
Contagious disease Next Definition Definition
This occurs when bacteria develop a tolerance to and survive treatment with drugs that once killed them. Answer Answer
Antibiotic resistance Next Definition Definition
A tiny organism that can be seen with only a microscope. Answer Answer
Microbe Next Definition Definition
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