Diseases Quiz

The table below shows leading causes of death in the United States.
Which of the causes can be categorized as an infectious disease?

• cancer
• stroke
• diabetes
• influenza

Over a two-week period, several students complain of feeling sick. Their symptoms include a cough, fever, and a sore throat. What describes the MOST likely cause of these symptoms?

• exposure to hot weather 
• decrease in physical exercise
• consumption of bad food
• infection by a virus

Humans with HIV can transmit the HIV virus to other humans even though they do not show the symptoms of the disease. Which term best describes the unaffected individual?

• carrier
• contagion
• mutagen
• vector

These diseases are caused by heredity, the environment and a persons lifestyle.

• Infectious Diseases

• Non-Infectious Diseases

• Bacterial Diseases

• Terminal Diseases

Vaccines work by...

• killing pathogens that are already infecting a host
• helping antibodies build immunity against a specific pathogen
• causing the body to expel pathogens faster than normal
• preventing a specific pathogen from entering the body

These tiny particles that may be plant or animal in origin - so small that they may only be seen under a microscope cause infectious diseases

• Fungi

• Viruses

• Mold

• Pathogens

A stuffy nose, sore throat or fever is your body trying to fight an infection - these are considered _________________.

• Germs

• Symptoms

• Bad Habits

• Fungi

These attack individual cells - responsible for chicken pox, the common cold, measles and AIDS

• Protozoa

• Bacteria

• Viruses

• Fungi

These are single celled organisms that come in many different shapes. Not all are harmful, in fact you need some good ones in your body

• Germs

• Antibiotics

• Viruses

• Bacteria

All of the following is how a disease could spread except for....

• Contact with an airborne germ

• Contact with a person

• Contact with certain foods

• Contact with an object