Disease
Across
- 5. a treatment that helps your body gain immunity to a virus
- 8. having good hygiene, covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing and avoiding close contact with sock people are all ways to
- 9. a microscopic infectious agent that is not a living cell and can only reproduce by invading a living host cell and inserting their DNA
- 13. a degenerative lung disease that can be caused by living in places with air pollution or by smoking and vaping
- 16. small number of bacteria that are able to cause disease
- 17. an organism that can be used as a food source, break down organic matter and act as decomposers
- 18. a skin cancer that is caused by sunlight exposure (UV light/radiation)
- 20. ringworm, tinea, and candida are all examples of
- 22. a treatment that will kill bacteria or prevent them from multiplying in your body
- 24. a pathogen moving from host to host though direct contact, airborne, vectors, bodily fluids, foodborne or waterborne are all types of
- 25. disease that can be spread when you touch the infected person
- 26. Measles, mumps, rubella and warts are all examples of
Down
- 1. non-infectious diseases that are caused by genetics, environment or lifestyle
- 2. a disease that is easily spread from one person to another
- 3. the process of external fluids entering your body, causing you to become infected with a disease
- 4. involves a person becoming infected when they contact an object previously touched by an infected person
- 6. produces water droplets from a person which contain pathogens and when these land in other peoples mouths or eyes, they can get infected with the disease
- 7. microscopic and unicellular organisms
- 10. a disease that can be spread when a person consumes food or water that contains a pathogen
- 11. separating material or people which are able to spread disease from uninfected people
- 12. A disease that can be spread from person to person
- 14. organisms or other things that can cause disease
- 15. a disease that is not easily transmitted from person to person
- 19. animals or objects that are able to transmit a disease
- 21. whooping cough, tetanus and gastroenteritis are all examples of
- 23. Anything that stopes the normal functioning of the body