Across
- 2. A state of physical, mental and social well-being
- 3. an inanimate object that can transmit disease
- 8. organisms with the potential to cause disease
- 10. disease that affects a larger area of the body and has become more diffuse in nature
- 11. Cause of disease
- 12. Any departure from normal health
- 13. HOST the animal in which the larval form of the parasite develops
- 14. disease that can be transmitted from animal to human or human to animal
- 16. disease not caused by an infectious organism
- 20. disease that affects an animal after birth
- 21. disease spread from one animal to another
- 23. an animal that carries the disease but shows no signs of that disease, yet has the potential to infect other animals
- 25. disease caused by a living organism
- 28. disease that affects only a localised or small area of the body
Down
- 1. disease that lasts for a long period
- 4. the incidence of disease in a population OR the number of animals that become sick
- 5. term used to describe the likely outcome of a disease
- 6. HOST the animal in which the adult form of the parasite develops
- 7. an infection acquired while in hospital
- 8. development of the disease within an animal
- 9. determining the actual cause of a disease
- 15. the number of deaths in a population of animals
- 17. PERIOD time lapse between becoming infected (or in contact with the organism) and displaying clinical signs OR between acquiring infection and the presence of clinical signs
- 18. Study of disease in a population
- 19. how the animal contracts the disease, how the disease is spread
- 22. disease that has spread to affect a number of tissues or organs
- 24. disease of short duration
- 26. disease that is present when the animal is born
- 27. disease passed onto the offspring from information from the parent’s genes