Vocabulary - Flu virus

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-easily spread between people (adjective)

• epidemic

• vaccine

• contagious

• influenza

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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Once the virus is inside, it multiplies. Then the NA protein cuts this viral swarm loose, sending it off to infect more cells.

• a family

• a powerful system

• a large group of individuals moving together

• a middle eastern sandwhich

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CCSS.L.5.5C

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The flu virus has been nearly impossible to _________ .

• eradicate

• transmit

• recur

• elusive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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-related to breathing (adjective)

• pneumonia

• infection

• epidemic

• respiratory

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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-result in or cause a very high level of damage or destruction

• parasite

• devastate

• elusive

• organ

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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Avian Flu and Swine Flu, for instance, are two strains of Type A viruses that... can be _________ from birds and pigs to humans .

• transmitted

• parasite

• virus

• organ

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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This triggers the immune system to bombard the swarm and to destroy infected tissue throughout the respiratory system.

• happen again and again

• shoots and injures or kills

• leads to an immediate reaction

• deceives

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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-a living thing which uses another living thing to provide shelter and food, without offering anything in return

• parasite

• organ

• vaccine

• child

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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-difficult to see, catch or fully define

• pneumonia

• contagious

• elusive

• respiratory

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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-medicine to prevent sickness delivered into the body by a needle (noun)

• parasite

• organ

• vaccine

• infection

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4