T3 - Infection and response Flashcards
What is a communicable disease?
Can be spread person to person
What spreads communicable diseases?
Pathogens
What is a non communicable disease?
Cannot be passed on from person to person
What is health?
State of physical and mental well being
What causes ill health? x4
-both diseases
-poor diet
-high stress
-life situations
What are pathogens?
microorganisms that cause infectious disease
What are the types of pathogens? x4
-bacteria
-virus
-protist
-fungi
How are pathogens spread? x3
-direct contact
-water
-air.
methods to reduce spread of pathogens? x5
-wash hands
- provide clean drinking water
-use a condom
-Isolate patients
-vaccination
How fast do bacteria and viruses reproduce?
reproduce rapidly
What does bacteria produce?
Toxins
What do toxins produced by bacteria do?
damage tissues and make us feel ill
Where do viruses reproduce?
In a cell
Can viruses be killed by antibiotics?
No
Symptoms of mealses? x2
-fever
-red skin rash
How are measles spread?
inhalation of droplets from sneezes and coughs
What is the solution for measles being fatal?
most young children are vaccinated against measles
Symptoms of HIV? x1
Flu-like illness
What happens over time to the immune system when you have HIV?
Becomes severely damaged
What happens when the immune system gets severely damaged from HIV?
it can no longer fight off other infections or cancers
Solution for HIV? x1
Antiretrovial drugs
Cons of taking antiretroviral drugs for HIV?
Needs to be taken for rest of their life
How is HIV spread?
exchange of fluids (sex, needles)
Can bacteria be killed by using antibiotics?
Yes
How is salmonella spread? x2
-Bacteria ingested in food
-food prepared in unhygienic conditions
Symptoms of salmonella? x4
-Fever
-abdominal cramps
-vomiting
-diarrhoea
What are symptoms of salmonella caused by?
toxins created by bacteria
What is vaccinated against salmonella in the uk to control spread of disease?
poultry
What is gonorrhea?
STD
Symptoms of gonorrhea? x2
-a thick yellow or green discharge
-pain on urinating
What was gonorrhea treated by before resistant strains?
antibiotic penicillin
Solution for gonorrhea? x2
-Condom
-test and treat people with gonorrhea
How is gonorrhea spread?
sexual contact
What type of pathogen causes malaria?
Protist
Life cycle of malaria? x2
- infected person bitten by mosquito
- mosquito bites another person and malaria is spread
How to stop spread of malaria? x2
-Stop mosquito from breeding with insecticides
-prevent mosquitoes from biting humans with mosquito nets
What is the job of non specific defence system?
Prevent pathogens from entering human body
Parts of non specific defence system? x4
-skin
-nose
-trachea and bronchi
-stomach
What does the skin do?
forms a protective layer around body
Feature of skin? x2
-outer layer made of dead cells
-Produces sebum
Why does the skin have an outer layer of hard skin?
Hard to penetrate
Why does the skin produce sebum?
Kills bacteria
feature of nose? x1
Contains hair and mucus
Why does the nose contain hair and mucus?
Traps pathogens
Features of bronchi and trachea? x2
-covered in tiny hairs called cilia
-Cilia covered in mucus
why is the cilia covered in mucus?
trap pathogens
What does cilia do when mucus traps pathogen?
wafts mucus up towards throat and swallowed into stomach