Vet Science Health and Disease

Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself (rats, mosquitoes, soil parasites)

• Vector

• Hazard

• Virus

• Infection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next

• Microbiology

• Infection

• Streptococcus

• Infectious Disease

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness

• Infection

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Toxin

Unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on Earth; capable of living in a variety of areas of conditions. Many are beneficial while many cause infectious (may be treated with antibiotics)

• Virus

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Protozoa

Caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues

• Infection

• Infectious Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

• Protozoa

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts: may spread rapidly throughout populations.

• Virus

• Vector

• Fungi

• Disease

A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world ( ex: smallpox, TB, certain flu outbreaks)

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Protozoa

• Bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Unicellular eukaryotic organisms capable of movement:may cause infections (malaria, African sleeping sickness

• Virus

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Protozoa

Organism that benefits from a host organism while the host is harmed

• Disease

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Parasite