Disease Spread

What is the best way to prevent diseases spread?

• Eating unhealthy food

• Avoiding water

• Good Hygiene Methods

• Not doing homework

Which of the following is an example of direct contact with an infected person?

• sneezing

• shaking hands

Any virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasite that can cause a disease in a living thing is called a

• cancer.

• pathogen.

• gene.

• toxin.

What is an infectious disease?

• A disease that cannot be spread to others.

• A disease that can be spread to others.

• A disease that can only be spread by mosquitoes.

• A disease that can be caused by disinfectants.

Health care experts who study trends in health issues in populations and deploy public announcements, education initiatives, and protocols to protect the health of the nation.

• epidemiologists

• dermatologists

• medical examiners

• immunologist

An organism that holds or carries a pathogen but does not show any symptoms

• Contagion

• Vector

• Carrier

• Host cell

A sudden increase of a specific disease

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Outbreak

• Contagion

To separate individuals that are known to be affected by a disease from those who are not; done to stop spread of infectious diseases

• Sanitation

• Quarantine

• Infected

• Contagion

An organism that transmits a pathogen to another organism

• Vector

• Host cell

• Carrier

• Protist

Which of the following is NOT a vector of a disease? 

• ticks

• mosquitos

• rats

• viruses