Controlling Disease

3. a disease that can be spread from one person to another.
7. avoiding behavior that puts your health at risks.
8. the giving of a vaccine to make a person immune to a disease.
13. protection to an specific disease due to the body’s memory of how to make antibodies to a specific pathogens.
15. a later dose of a vaccine; needed to keep up immunity.
16. a nervous feeling in the body and the mind.
17. a medicine that kills pathogens, such as bacteria.
19. substances that cause cancer.

1. the body’s natural ability to fight off pathogens.
2. a disease or condition that is not caused by pathogens and does not spread from person to person.
4. the result of a pathogen’s multiplying in the body.
5. substances that damage the body’s cells; for example, wastes produced by some bacteria.
6. diseases of the heart and blood bessels
9. system, the body system that recognizes and destroys invading pathogens.
10. substances produced in the blood to fight disease.
11. an organism or a virus that can cause illness.
12. a medicine that contains dead or weakened pathogens that can cause the immune system to form antibodies.
14. a commutative disease spread by sexual contact.
18. a substance that helps more sugar from the blood into the cells.