Contagion Vocabulary

To keep a person or an item safe

• virus

• symptom

• protect

• infect

To make someone sick

• infect

• symptom

• vaccine

• disease

The parts of the body that work together to fight off disease.

• disease

• protect

• virus

• immune system

A substance used to protect people from disease.

• symptom

• disease

• contagious

• vaccine

A person is this when they transmit a virus to someone else.

• contagious

• protect

• immunized

• vaccinate

to make resistant to an infectious disease

• epidemic

• contagious

• immunize

• disease

something wrong with your body that shows you are sick

• infect

• immunize

• symptom

• contagious

a tiny living thing that causes diseases

• vaccine

• immunize

• virus

• symptom

Spread means

• to stay away from someone or something

• something that people can't understand

• to have or hold something

• to move and affect a larger area

Overwhelm means

• lose at a basketball game

• to take over and cause something to stop working

• something that people can't understand or explain

• another name for a unicorn