health quiz

4. a worldwide spread of a disease
6. the bodys ability to stay safe by affording protection against harmful agents
7. a measure of how commonly a disease occurs in a specified population
8. isabels best friend
9. an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid
10. infections that are spread between people and animals
12. the ability of an organism to infect the host and cause a disease.
13. when a person with an infectious disease touches or exchanges body fluids with someone else.
14. the help to digest food, destroy disease-causing cells
16. microorganism that causes the disease
17. acquired immunity
18. one or more epidemiologically connected populations or environments in which the pathogen can be maintained
19. distrubution and determinants of health-related states among specified populations

1. a measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a disease.
2. the innate immune system
3. introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
5. a part of the immune system that focuses on specific foreign particles
11. living organisms that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans or from animals to humans.
14. a key player of the adaptive immune response that is responsible for humoral immunity in mammals
15. unexpected increase in the number of disease cases in a specific area