Diseases Flashcards
What is the connection between the Yellow Fever, Panama Canal, and the banning of birdbaths in NYC?
Mosquitoes carry Yellow Fever, and is carried through water, which was spread throughout the Panama canal, and can be spread in birdbaths.
How can an epidemic start from an infectious disease? (Infectious diseases cannot be spread from person to person.)
The disease can spread through water, and through or through other infected animals.
What are examples and descriptions of Inherited, Nutritional, and Infectious diseases?
Inherited: Hemophilia, Having family members with a disease that then infected you. Nutritional: Rickets, Scurvy, and High Blood Pressure, Caused by bad diet and lack of exercise. Infectious: Cold, Flu, Strep, Caused by a living thing.
How does cilia, skin, and white blood cells help defend against diseases?
Cilia: Blocks unknown substances in the air from entering the body. Skin: Protects body from germs. White Blood Cells: Eat and destroy antigens.
Antibodies are drugs that help us fight diseases caused by what?
Bacteria.
It is important to know if you have strep throat (rather than another kind of sore throat) and to treat it with antibiotics. Why?
Because strep throat is caused by bacteria, and if not treated, can spread, and can cause other diseases, like rheumatic fever.
A tumor is an abnormal _____. One kind of tumor has no capsule and grows without control. This kind is called _____ or _____. Cells from these tumors break away, travel in the blood or lymph to new places and are known as metastases.
Growth. Cancerous. Malignant.
What is the difference between communicable and infectious diseases? What is the difference between cause and transmission? What is the difference among treatment, prevention, and cure? What is a vaccine? What is it called when a lot of people in the same area have the same disease?
Communicable diseases can spread from person to person, but infectious cannot. All catching diseases are infectious, but not all infectious diseases are catching. The cause of a disease is what started it; the transmission is how it is caught. The prevention of a disease is how the disease is stopped from spreading; the treatment is how the infected is made better; the cure of a disease is how it is completely rid of from the body. A vaccine is when weakened or dead antigens are put inside the body, and the memory cells “remember” the antigen, making it easier to destroy the next time it is caught. An epidemic.
