Across
- 2. MEV-1 became this type of widespread outbreak when it spread across international borders
- 5. biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease; needed to stop the MEV-1 virus spread
- 8. Abnormal, excess, or synchronous neuronal activity of the brain projected as wild trashing movement or loss of awareness; symptom of MEV-1
- 10. A_____ virus was used to create a vaccine since it is less potent than normal virus
- 12. Dr. Leonora Orantes is an _____ who studies the origins and effects of MEV-1
- 14. The ____ rate represents number of people who died due to a specific cause
- 15. inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents
Down
- 1. The inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord known as meninges, as a result of an infection
- 3. The_____ period which is the time elapsed between the exposure to a pathogen and when symptoms and signs are first apparent, can vary greatly between infections
- 4. people were placed on _____ to avoid the further spread of the MEV-1 virus
- 6. any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, can be produced naturally by the body or after a vaccine is administered
- 7. small non-living parasite which can only replicate inside a host cell such as MEV-1
- 9. The MEV-1 virus when through antigenic ____ when strains of pig and bat virus combined to form it
- 11. Place of virus attachment on host cell which leads to specificity
- 13. Mitch Emhoff had ____to the disease, meaning that he would not be infected