Infectious Disease- Understanding Infectious Deseases

Infectious Disease-

Understanding Infectious Diseases

Key Concept

When you have an infectious disease, pathogens have gotten inside your body and caused harm.

Many diseases are cause by tiny living things. Living things that cause disease are called pathogens.

Diseases caused by pathogens are called infectious diseases.

Pathogens make you sick by damaging cells. For example, when you have strep throat, pathogens have damaged cells in your throat.

Multiple Choice

Is the following sentence true or false?

Pathogens make you sick by damaging cells.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Tell me one thing you learned today about Infectious Disease?