WorksheetsDisease
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 14mins
When a pathogen is moved from person to person through physical touch (kissing, hugging, close-up sneezing, shaking hands).
Transmission
Translation
Emission
Direct Contact
Indirect Contact
Pathogens spread from person to person by objects (chairs, medical equipment, office supplies, doorknobs, etc.)
Direct Contact
Indirect Contact
Airborne Transmission
Foodborne Tranmission
Vector-Borne Transmission
This term is used when a disease affects a large proportion of the people over a large area.
Epidemic
Pandemic
Disease
Pathogens
This term is used when many people in a local area get sick at the same time.
Epidemic
Pandemic
Diseases
Pathogens
Is cancer a pandemic?
No, because it is not contagious
Yes, because lots of people have it
How can the rate of an infectious disease be reduced?
By preventing transmission between people
By wearing clean clothing
If a flu outbreak affects a small community, would that be considered a pandemic or an epidemic?
Pandemic
Epidemic
What is significant about an infectious disease?
It can be passed from person to person
It cannot be passed from one person to another
What is the best way to prevent the flu from becoming a pandemic?
Getting a vaccination
Taking antibiotics
description of what does not feel 'right'
transmission
symptom
treatment
disease
what you do to feel better or solve a problem
symptoms
treatment
transmission
prognosis
organism that feeds on a living host
treatment
symptoms
parasite
diagnosis
sudden rise in the incidence of a disease
parasite
bacteria
outbreak
virus
