Infectious Disease

True or False: The flu is spread only by direct contact, such as kissing a person with the flu.

• True

• False

Infectious diseases can spread by contact with

• an infected person

• a contaminated object

• an Infected animal

• an environmental source

• All of the above.

True or False: Some vIruses and bacteria that live in food, water, and soil can cause disease.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of direct contact with an infected person?

• sneezing

• shaking hands

What is the smallest pathogen?

• protist

• bacteria

• virus

• fungi

athlete’s foot

• virus

• protozoa

• fungus

• bacteria

• parasite

If you want to stay well, which of these should you do?

• exercise regularly

• eat a balanced diet

• get enough sleep

• all of these

When you are sick, which of these should you do?

• drink fluids and rest

• go to school

• push yourself to feel better

• stop taking medicine as soon as you start to feel a little better

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

• bacteria
• a virus
• a fungi
• ha protist

the body's response to an infection by showing redness, swelling, & pain

• immunization

• mobilization (stage of infection)

• inflammation