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- 3. This class of medications targets specific viruses to prevent their growth.
- 8. This virus was the second virus to ever be imaged and even though it does not infect humans, prior to COVID-19 it was the most popular image to represent viruses.
- 10. This class of medications kill or slow the growth of bacteria, however they are not effective at treating viral or fungal infections.
- 11. This infectious disease led to the development of the world's first documented vaccination practice in 1772 and was completely eradicated from the wild with the last documented case occurring in 1977.
- 12. This type of cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer accounting for over 300,000 new cancer cases each year (15% of all cancers).
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- 1. This family of viruses is known for causing chickenpox, cold sores, and mono.
- 2. This class of medications consists of a cocktail of toxic chemicals designed to treat cancer by killing the fast growing cells in your body.
- 4. With the approval of the Ebola vaccine in 2019 and the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 there are now six authorized vaccine categories: live-attenuated, subunit, toxoid, mRNA, viral-vectored, and ____________________.
- 5. When a foreign danger is detected in your body, these proteins are created and released to find and attach to the dangerous particles, binding them up and marking the particle for destruction.
- 6. This virus was recently discovered to have the ability to partially erase your immune memory, meaning that after being infected with this virus, you could get sick from other viruses and bacteria you were previously immune to.
- 7. Cancers can be caused by a variety of reasons, however, the root cause of all cancers is due to _______________, or changes, in a person's DNA.
- 9. This protein is the most commonly mutated protein found in cancers.