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PCS Health 2022
Health 2022 unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |