Vet Science-Health and Disease

Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself (rats, mosquitoes, soil parasites)

• Vector

• Hazard

• Virus

• Infection

Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next

• Microbiology

• Infection

• Streptococcus

• Infectious Disease

Using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness

• Infection

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Toxin

Unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on Earth; capable of living in a variety of areas of conditions. Many are beneficial while many cause infectious (may be treated with antibiotics)

• Virus

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Protozoa

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues

• Infection

• Infectious Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

• Protozoa

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts: may spread rapidly throughout populations.

• Virus

• Vector

• Fungi

• Disease

Poisonous substance that may cause serious effects on the body

• fungi

• infection

• toxin

• hygiene

Are virus living things?

• Yes

• No

what is the vector of a disease?

• It is the habitat in which the agent normally lives, grows, and multiplies

• the person, animal or microorganism that carries and transmits the agent or pathogen

• the organisms that is infected

• the pathogen that causes a disease