Infectious diseases

What is an infectious disease?

• A disease that can be spread from person to person

• A disease that cannot be spread from person to person

Heredity, and environment contribute to which type of diseases.....

• infectious
• flu
• contagious
• noninfectious

A disease that can be passed from one person to another through pathogens.

• Communicable disease
• Noncommunicable disease

An ____________________ disease can also be called a communicable disease

• infectious

• noninfectious

• asthma

• deadly

Infectious diseases are caused by _________ in the body.

• pathogens

• decomposers

An organism that lives on or in a host and causes it harm is called

• a host
• a parasite
• a cell
• a virus

A host is:

• An organism that harbors a pathogen

• Grant Denyer on Family Feud

• An animal that transmits a pathogen

• A microorganism that has been transmitted

A disease that commonly happens in an area is called a/an_______________ disease

• endemic

• epidemic

• pandemic

• sporadic

A disease that spreads to a new area, but stays in the same continent is called a/an ________________ disease

• epidemic

• pandemic

• endemic

• sporadic

A disease that moves from one continent to another new continent is known as a/an ______________________ disease.

• epidemic

• endemic

• pandemic

• sporadic