COVID-19
Across
- 4. (n.) Isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms.
- 6. (n.) An action that is taken to prevent something unpleasant or dangerous happening.
- 7. (n.) A micro-organism or germ such as a bacterium or virus that can cause disease.
- 8. (n.) RNA replication mistakes, which makes the development of COVID-19 vaccines hard.
- 9. (n.) A group of viruses covered in little crown-like protein spikes.
- 11. (adj.) Describing a disease that can be transmitted through the environment.
- 12. (adj.) Showing no symptoms of a particular disease.
Down
- 1. (v.) Identify an illness by examining the symptoms.
- 2. (n.) Bacteria or viruses increase in size or number in the person's or animal's body, but do not yet produce the effects of disease.
- 3. (adj.) Describing a disease that can be transmitted from animals to human.
- 5. (n.) Occurrence of a particular disease in a large number of people in a particular area.
- 7. (n.) Occurrence of a particular disease throughout a whole country or the world.
- 10. (n.) Testing of people for the presence of a disease. For COVID-19 the first step in screening is usually taking a person’s temperature.