Diseases
Across
- 2. substance to help the body gain immunity to a disease
- 8. the cause of swine flu
- 9. is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebola viruses which has resulted in epidemics.
- 13. spread of a disease in a local population where a large number of people get sick
- 16. uncontrolled growth of the cell cycle
- 17. using a process of heating substances to kill the bacteria in it
- 18. non-living microscopic needs a host
- 19. fission single cell splits into two identical cells
- 20. the cause of the current pandemic
- 21. medicine made by inserting a specific gene into bacteria; it treats diabetes
- 22. organism from which a virus takes food, shelter, and the ability to reproduce
- 23. a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms
- 25. disease that cannot be passed along to others
- 26. a disease that is passed on to humans by a mosquito thru a protist called Plasmodium Vivax
- 27. cancer causing substance
- 29. Three shapes; bacilli, cocci, and spirilla
Down
- 1. a medicine specifically designed to kill bacteria; good and bad bacteria in the body
- 3. disease that can be passed along to others
- 4. a bacterial disease caused by a vector known as the tick
- 5. to eliminate no more exist at specific location
- 6. a medicine for the treatment of viruses. Not 100% effective but slows the virus down
- 7. spread of a disease that requires the disease to spread into two or more continents where a large number people get sick
- 10. Virus, bacteria, or other microorganism that causes disease
- 11. an animal that passes a pathogen from the host to another organism
- 12. easily spread with in a population
- 14. a virus that is transmitted by an infected animal. Vaccine is available for some animals
- 15. the cause of athlete's foot
- 21. to resist, recover, or prevent a disease from entering the body
- 24. more commonly know as the flu can be prevented by vaccine but has been responsible for epidemics and pandemics in the past
- 28. passes a pathogen from human to human without symptoms