Contagion Makeup Assignment 1

Front

Heart disease is a communicable disease.

Back

False

Front

Infectious (contagious/communicable) diseases, like the flu, are spread from person to person.

Back

True

Front

Diseases CAUSED by one's lifestyle choices, genetics, or environment.

Back

Non-communicable

Front

A risk factor is a KNOWN CAUSE to various conditions.

Back

False

Front

Person who gets a disease because of weak defenses

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susceptible host

Front

To "kill the pathogen" ONLY works for bacteria.

Back

True

Front

What is the single most effective way to break the Chain of Infection?

Back

Handwashing

Front

What comes next in the chain of infection? Agent, reservoir, portal of exit,_________.

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mode of transmission

Front

Which of the following is an example of contact transmission? shaking hands with someone, winking, jumping jacks, coughing

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shaking hands with someone

Front

A disease is one that is spread from one person to another (direct or indirect contact) through a variety of ways that include: contact with blood and bodily fluids; breathing in an airborne virus; or by being bitten by an insect.

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communicable