Preventing Disease

Jamal isn't feeling well. His head aches. His throat hurts. Jamal's father takes his temperature. It is higher than it should be. A temperature higher than normal is a fever. These are signs of a disease. What is another word for signs of a disease?

• Disability

• Virus

• Symptoms

• Cases

Something that causes the body not to work normally.

• Friends

• Cases

• Medicine

• Disease

A temperature higher than normal is called

• Heated

• Fever

• Symptom

• The Flu

Coughing without covering your mouth is one way to spread a cold or virus.

• True

• False

There are also diseases that cannot be spread to other people.

• True

• False

A disability is a condition that keeps someone from doing some of the things that a person without that disability might be able to do. A disability cannot be spread from person to person. Which one of these is a disability?

• The cold

• A sore throat

• Being in a wheelchair

• A bad cough

diseases keep the body from working normally.

• True

• False

Preventing a disease means to do what?

• Spread it

• Stop it

• Love it

• Catch it

Self isolating or staying away from others is a way to slow the spread of a virus. What is the word called for this method called?

• Quarantine

• Corona

• Doctor visit

• Medicine

You might know someone who has had a cold or virus this year. A cold is a communicable disease which is a disease that can spread from one person to another. What is another type of communicable disease?

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• The Flu

• Athlete's foot