Communicable Disease & Hygiene
Across
- 3. Signs that your body is sick like fever cough or sore throat
- 5. A germ that often lives on dead or decaying matter like mold
- 8. The most effective way to stop the spread of germs
- 11. A germ that can only reproduce inside a living cell
- 12. How germs spread from one person to another
- 15. A chemical that kills germs on surfaces
- 18. A tiny living thing that can cause disease
- 20. To clean something to reduce the number of germs
- 22. A disease that can spread from person to person
- 23. Healthy habits that keep you clean and reduce germs
- 24. A shot that helps your body build protection against a disease
- 26. Steps you take to stop disease before it starts
Down
- 1. Able to spread from person to person
- 2. Staying away from others to prevent spreading disease
- 4. When a disease spreads quickly to many people
- 6. A germ that lives on or inside a host to survive
- 7. A medicine used to treat bacterial infections not viruses
- 9. Spread through the air by coughing sneezing or talking
- 10. Something germs can live on like doorknobs phones or desks
- 13. A type of germ that can live almost anywhere including your body
- 14. A disease that does NOT spread from person to person
- 16. When germs get into your body and start causing illness
- 17. Your body's ability to fight off germs and disease
- 19. A disease causing germ
- 21. The time between catching a germ and feeling sick
- 25. Tiny wet particles that can carry germs when you cough or sneeze