Pathogens

Question 1

Any organism or agent that can produce disease in a host

Answer 1

pathogen

Question 2

The primary function of the immune system?

Answer 2

defend the body from pathogens

Question 3

The only fully eradicated human disease; airborne infected humans for thousands of years and killed billions

Answer 3

smallpox

Question 4

the “flu”; a respiratory infection; has caused many pandemics; has many strains

Answer 4

influenza

Question 5

virus caused disease

Answer 5

covid-19

Question 5

passed from non-human hosts to humans; infects the brain; fatal unless treated immediately

Answer 5

rabies

Question 6

caused by soil bacteria entering a wound; causes contraction of all muscles; also known as lockjaw

Answer 6

tetanus

Question 7

a type of food poisoning; commonly comes from eating improperly canned food; causes relaxation of muscles (death by suffocation)

Answer 7

Botulism

Question 8

Normally live in gut of humans without causing harm; some types cause bloody diarrhea

Answer 8

E. Coli.

Question 9

Most deadly bacterial disease; lung infection; causes bloody cough

Answer 9

Tuberculosis