Epidemics and Pandemics

4. To move or travel from one point to another. In biology, it would allow microorganisms or diseases to be transitioned from country to country quicker.
5. A pandemic, transmitted with sexual contact or direct contact that’s thought to have originated from monkeys.
7. The contact that occurs when something has not touched an infected person but has come in contact with the virus through water vapor when the person talks or in the air of the room.
9. Spreading infectious diseases that occur mainly worldwide and in great numbers.
10. The body’s natural defense towards harmful microorganisms.
11. A group of prokaryotic single cellular microorganisms that can only be cured using antibiotics.
12. A Greek word meaning “all people.”
14. A virus that is now an epidemic in central America and South America. It’s originated from a certain species of monkeys and it’s transmitted by mosquitos and direct contact.

1. Is thought to have originated from India or Europe many years ago (in B.C. times). It is transmitted through direct contact.
2. that can cause disease.
3. The contact that occurs when something has touched our exchanged any types of fluids with another person.
6. The spreading of a disease that doesn’t spread very far, usually in a region or country, but can turn into a pandemic.
7. Also known as the flu. It has been present ever since the 1700’s.
8. The action or process of a virus or disease being transmitted from one person to the next.
13. A pathogen that takes over a cell and changes its DNA to multiply rapidly. Antibiotics cannot cure them, it can only help the symptoms that go along with this type of microorganism.