Across
- 2. - a sudden increase in the number of people with a disease in a specific geographic area.
- 7. - the body’s ability to destroy pathogens before they can cause disease.
- 8. - the process by which harmless antigens are put into a person’s body to produce active immunity.
- 10. - a substance or factor in the environment that can cause cancer.
- 11. - an allergic reaction in which the respiratory passages narrow significantly, which causes wheezing and shortness of breath.
- 12. - poison
- 14. - a disease in which cells multiply uncontrollably, over and over, destroying healthy tissue in the process.
Down
- 1. - a disorder where the immune system is overly sensitive to a foreign substance.
- 2. - a disease that is consistently present but limited to a particular region.
- 3. - diseases that are not caused by pathogens in the body, and cannot be transmitted from person to person.
- 4. - when a disease’s growth rate skyrockets, increasing each day and cuts across international boundaries and populations.
- 5. - a condition where the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the body’s cells fail to use insulin properly.
- 6. - nonliving particles that can only reproduce inside living cells
- 9. - an abnormal mass caused by cells dividing over and over.
- 13. - an organism that causes an infectious disease.