Infectious Disease Quiz

Disease causing agent that have the ability to make you sick

• Pathogen

• Diseases

• Animals

Which of the following is an example of direct contact with an infected person?

• sneezing

• shaking hands

Which is NOT one way that pathogens spread?

• droplets in the air

• food

• through animals

• water

• through email

_______ Is any condition that interferes with the proper functioning of the body or mind

• disease
• infection
• pathogen

An individual that is symptom-free but capable of passing the pathogen is called a _________.

• carrier

• pathogen

• vector

• human

Pasteur's theory that microorganisms cause infectious disease.

• Virus theory
• Bacteria theory
• Germ theory
• Chaos theory

What is one of the ways that antibiotics work? 

• They can stop bacteria from reproducing
• They can stop viruses from reproducing
• They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts
• They engulf the pathogens

Vaccines stimulate the body to produce...

• autoimmune diseases

• helper t-cells

• fever

• antibodies

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A bacterium
• A virus
• A fungus
• A protist

Disease that cause lungs inflammation.

• HIV

• Ebola

• Zika

• Pneumonia