Germs and sickness

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  1. 3. Man's best friend
  2. 4. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce. Not made of cells. Examples: rabies, cold, flu, measles, Hepatitis B, AIDS, others.
  3. 6. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens(Louis Pasteur) This process is used to make milk safe to drink.louis Pasteur proposed the germ theory of disease began pasteurizing(heating) milk to kill bacteria. Also developed a vaccine to prevent Rabies
  4. 8. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria
  5. 12. 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.
  6. 13. Likes to chase mice
  7. 14. Koch Koch's postulates Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens that cause disease
  8. 15. Has a trunk
  9. 18. Fungus a type of pathogen that can cause diseases like athletes foot and ringworm. An organism that absorbs nutrients from the environment.
  10. 20. Special proteins which destroys/kills pathogens (made by white blood cells)
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  1. 1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
  2. 2. When a person has white blood cells that can rapidly make the correct antibodies to destroy/kill a pathogen.
  3. 3. Semmelweiss The first doctor to recognize the importance of hand-washing to PREVENT the spread of infectious diseases.
  4. 5. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus. Cause disease by rapidly reproducing and making toxins which damage our body cells. Examples: Lyme disease, cholera, tuberculosis, strep throat, tetanus and others.
  5. 7. Large marsupial
  6. 9. Flying mammal
  7. 10. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.
  8. 11. A dead or inactive form of a pathogen. They prevent some types of diseases such as measles, mumps, Hepatitis B.
  9. 16. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide.
  10. 17. microorganisms that cause disease. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi and Protozoans(parasites).
  11. 19. Resistance a condition in which bacteria can no longer be killed by a particular antibiotic