Read 180 Workshop 5 Vocabulary

parts of your body that work together to fight disease

• protect

• symptom

• immune system

to make someone sick

• infect

• vaccine

• immunize

to keep a person or an item safe from harm

• virus

• epidemic

• protect

something wrong with your body that shows you are sick

• symptom

• contagious

• protect

a substance used to keep people from getting a disease

• public health

• immune system

• vaccine

a tiny living thing that causes diseases

• epidemic

• virus

• immune system

If it can spread from one living thing to another, it is________.

• protect

• contagious

• epidemic

an illness caused by an infection or failure of health (not by an accident)

• disease

• immunize

• contagious

a disease that affects a large number of people

• epidemic

• public health

• vaccine

giving people a vaccine, or shot, to protect them from an illness

• immunize

• symptom

• epidemic