Quick Check - Concepts about diseases

An effect of a disease, such as a pain or spots.

• Hygiene

• virus

• symptom

Bacteria, fungi, viruses or protoctists that get into the body and cause damage.

• virus

• pathogen

• polio

An illness, when the body is not working properly.

• hygiene

• deficiency disease

• disease

A disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking its own body cells and damaging them.

• auto-immune disease

• infectious disease

• genetic disease

A disease caused by a pathogen getting into the body and damaging it.

• genetic disease

• infectious disease

• polio

A microbe that has no cell structures. The outer protein coat surrounds its genetic material.

• hygiene

• symptom

• virus

An illness that is inherited from parents, such as sickle-cell disease.

• infectious disease

• genetic disease

• auto-immune disease

Keeping things clean, and clear of infectious microbes.

• Polio

• Virus

• hygiene

A disease that damages the nervous system and can cause paralysis of muscles, making it difficult to move.

• kwashiorkor

• polio

• chicken pox

A disease caused by the lack of a nutrient in the diet, such as kwashiorkor.

• deficiency disease

• auto-immune disease

• virus