Pathogens

2. Plasmodium causes Malaria. It is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito through its saliva when it sucks blood. It is a one-celled, animal-like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms.
7. A dead or inactive form of a pathogen. They prevent some types of diseases such as measles, mumps, Hepatitis B.
9. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria.
11. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens.
12. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.

1. Special proteins which destroys/kills pathogens (made by white blood cells).
3. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide.
4. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
5. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce. Not made of cells.
6. microorganisms that cause disease.
8. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus. Cause disease by rapidly reproducing and making toxins which damage our body cells.
10. When a person has white blood cells that can rapidly make the correct antibodies to destroy/kill a pathogen.