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Stage B W5 Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| confirm | to provide proof that something is true |
| foreign | located outside one's own body |
| retraced | followed someone else's journey to find out where they went |
| combat | to try to keep something bad from happening |
| virus | a tiny living thing that causes diseases |
| dehydrated | not having enough water in the body |
| vaccine | a substance used to keep people from getting a disease |
| overwhelm | to take over and cause something to stop working |
| epidemiologist | someone who studies how diseases are spread and controlled |
| agency | an organization that does a specific job |
| immune system | parts of your body that work together to fight disease |
| crisis | a situation of great difficulty or danger |
| symptom | something wrong with your body that shows you are sick |
| activate | to make something start working |
| mutate | to change and become different from others of the same kind |