Harmful Micro Organisms

Question 1

Disease

Answer 1

Something that happens when the body doesn’t work properly

Question 2

Symptoms

Answer 2

Feel ill in a particular way

Question 3

Pathogen

Answer 3

Organism that harms body and causes disease

Question 4

Transmission

Answer 4

How the disease is passed from person to person

Question 5

AIDS

Answer 5

Caused by HIV
Virus
Destroys your immune system-immune deficient
Can be transmitted through: placenta, child birth, sex, blood

Question 6

How does the immune system work?

Answer 6

Bacteria enters body through a cut
Body makes antibodies which attack the bacteria
Bacteria destroyed by antibodies
Antibodies stay in body ready for next attack. You are now immune to that disease.

Question 7

TB

Answer 7

Lives in lungs 
Affects other organs
Transmitted through: coughing then inhaled
Is curable
Bacteria

Question 8

Malaria

Answer 8

Protista
Transmitted: female mosquito to infected person to mosquitoes
Lives in red blood cells and liver causing regular fever attacks
Prevented by anti malaria attacks

Question 9

Diarrhoea

Answer 9

Watery poop
Body loses water
Die if not treated
Come from drinking water from taps

Question 10

Cholera

Answer 10

Causes diarrhoea
Lives in water
Goes to intestines and multiplies and releases poisonous substances.
Intestines stop working which causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting
Can cause death if not treated
Treated with antibiotics and large amounts of salt water solution