Unit 8 Vocab pt. 4

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Across
  1. 2. An infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
  2. 3. An infectious disease caused by a bacterium ( Yersinia pestis ) that is carried by flea
  3. 10. A small, beneficial protein that occasionally mutates into a pathogen.
  4. 12. A type of flu caused by a coronavirus.
  5. 13. The standard for safe drinking water established by the EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
  6. 16. A coronavirus that causes the disease known as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome.
  7. 17. A type of flu caused by the H1N1 virus.
  8. 18. A virus that lives in hundreds of species of birds and is transmitted among birds by mosquitoes.
  9. 20. A disease caused by a bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi) that is transmitted by ticks.
  10. 21. Legislation that sets the national standards for safe drinking water.
  11. 22. A coronavirus that causes the disease known as Covid-19.
Down
  1. 1. A type of virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
  2. 4. Legislation that supports the “protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreation in and on the water” by maintaining and, when necessary, restoring the chemical, physical, and biological properties of surface waters.
  3. 5. A disease caused by a pathogen that causes fetuses to be born with unusually small heads and damaged brains
  4. 6. An infectious disease that has not been previously described or has not been common for at least the prior 20 years.
  5. 7. An infectious disease with high death rates, caused by several species of Ebola viruses.
  6. 8. An infectious disease caused by one of several species of protists in the genus Plasmodium .
  7. 9. A highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily infects the lungs.
  8. 11. An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhea, which results in dehydration and can cause death.
  9. 14. A disease in which prions mutate into deadly pathogens and slowly damage a cow’s nervous system.
  10. 15. An epidemic that occurs over a large geographic region, such as an entire continent; Covid-19
  11. 19. flu A type of flu caused by the H5N1 virus.