Unit 5-Disease & Illness

condition someone can develop after coming into contact with living things or objects infected with the disease

• influenza

• antibiotics

• Communicable disease

• pathogens

microorganisms that cause communicable diseases

• pathogens

• tonsillitis

• influenza

• conjunctivitis

substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria

• germs

• pathogens

• influenza

• antibiotics

medical conditions that cannot be spread among living things and objects, but develop as a result of heredity, environment, and lifestyle factors

• autoimmune disease

• noncommunicable diseases

• communicable diseases

• influenza

disease that causes the body’s immune system to attack and damage healthy body tissues

• tonsillitis

• arthritis

• diabetes mellitus

• autoimmune disease

practice of covering your mouth and nose with a tissue while coughing or sneezing, or sneezing into your sleeve

• respiratory ettiquete

• food sanitation

• tonsillitis

• coughing

substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of a pathogen that is injected into a person to train that person's immune system to eliminate the live pathogen

• antibiotic

• vaccine

• mononucliosis

• pathogens