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Virus Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Virus | A small, nonliving particle that invades a living cell and then replicates or makes many copies of itself using materials inside the cell |
| Pathogenic | causing disease |
| Nonpathogenic | not causing disease |
| infectious | capable of being transmitted among people (This may occur in a variety of ways: contaminated air, water or food, direct contact with infected person, object or animal, etc.) |
| Noncellular | not forming a living cell |
| Parasite | organisms that live on or in another organism (host) and cause them harm |
| Incubation | the period of development requiring ideal environmental vonditions (time it takes for the host to develop and display signs of the disease to which it has been exposed) Ex: the incubation period for colds is 24-48 hours |
| Epidemic | the rapid spread of an infectious (contagious) disease |
| Quarantine | isolation from the others so as to prevent the spread of disease |
| vaccine | a substance containing dead or weakened viruses which cause the body to make antibodies- cells produced by your own body in response to a vaccine. These antibodies protect you against that particular disease. |
| Interferon | a protein which helps your body fight disease causing viruses. It seems to protect uninfected cells. |
| Immunity | resistance to an infection by a specific pathogen |
| Antiviral | a substance which kills viruses that have invaded an organism. |
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