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PCS Health 2022
Health 2022 unit 1
Term | Definition |
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Germ | pathogens |
lifestyle disease | caused by behavior choices |
pandemic | worldwide |
locally large outbreak | epidemic |
asymptomatic | carrier without symptoms |
communicable | person to person |
antibiotic will cure which pathogen | bacteria |
which pathogen causes cold, flu, COVID - no cure | virus |
which pathogen causes yeast infection in the mouth | fungi |
which pathogen causes malaria | parasite |
methods of direct contact that spreads disease | touching, sneezing |
example of lifestyle disease | heart disease |
methods of indirect spread of disease | through food and water |
methods to prevent the spread of disease | wash/mask/vaccine |
noncommunicable disease | diseases that cannot be spread from person to person but by heredity |
infectious diseases spread by | touch, air, parasites |
disease that requires vaccinations annually | endemic |
a disease that spreads quickly through human populations all over the world | pandemic |
occurrence of more cases of a disease than expected | epidemic |