Pathogens and how they spread

What is the job of the immune system?

• To protect your body from drugs and medicine
• To protect your body from air and water
• To protect your body from pathogens
• To protect your body from itself

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

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

Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or fungus.

• antigen
• prion
• pathogen
• allergen

Pathogens known as ____ must get inside cells to reproduce.

• viruses
• bacteria
• fungi
• protist

Viruses...

• use a host to reproduce
• breath oxygen
• grow
• eat food

a tiny, non-living particle that invades and then multiplies inside a living cell is called

• bacteria
• a virus
• a fungi
• ha protist

What is one way a pathogen can enter the body?

• Nose
• Mouth
• Broken Skin
• All of the Aove

What is a pathogen?

• a doctor who specializes in curing diseases
• microbe that are beneficial when present
• a special machine that is used to grow microbes
• a small living organism that can cause disease

Tags

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The way an infectious disease is spread

• Transmission

• Translation

• Emission

• Direct Contact

• Indirect Contact

When a pathogen is moved from person to person through physical touch (kissing, hugging, close-up sneezing, shaking hands).

• Transmission

• Translation

• Emission

• Direct Contact

• Indirect Contact