The Flu

What was the name of the girl?

• Sarah

• Holly

• Jazmin

• Ann

How did the girl get exposed to the flu?

• From a sneeze

• Someone coughed in her face.

• She got it by drinking from a cup.

• She kissed her infected boyfriend.

What type of organism is the flu?

• A bacteria

• A fungus

• A fungus

• A virus

What was her first line of defense for this particular pathogen?

• Her skin

• Her saliva

• The mucus in her nose hairs.

• Her T cells.

When she started feeling bad she took a fever reducer. Did this help or hurt the virus?

• Hurt it.

• Helped it.

How did the virus fool her throat cells?

• It pretended to be a protein

• It pretended to be a carbohydrate

• It pretended to be another throat cell.

• It mutated when it got to her cell.

What was the line of defense that producted antibodies?

• T-cells

• B-cells

• Macrophages

• Red blood cells

The T and B cells were located in her?

• Lymph nodes or lymph gland

• Spleen

• Thymus

• Liver

True or False...Once she recovered, she will be immune for life from all types of the flu.

• True

• False

How does the flu virus keep infecting people that have already had it?

• It becomes resistant to antibiotics.

• It keeps mutating.

• It doesn't really have a cure

• It changes into a bacteria.