Biology CP- Mr. Willets
Disease
1) Colds and flu most often spread by what method? ________________________
2) What does STD stand for? _______________________________________
3) Spreading a disease by ____________________ contact means touching something the sick person touched.
4) Stomach and Intestinal diseases are often spread through ________________________________
5) Diseases in the blood are often spread by _________________ that bite us. These are called the _______________ (or carriers) of the disease.
6) Typhoid Mary was a _____________________________________ of typhoid fever.
7) List some body defenses that keep germs out- __________________________________________
8) Fever is helpful in fighting disease unless it ____________________________________
9) Inflammation occurs when damaged cells release chemicals called ________________________ These increase blood flow which produces they classic symptoms of ________________ and ______________
10) White blood cells that "eat" pathogens are called ______________________. One type of these called killer cells destroy your own cells that are ______________________
11) The immune response has several parts- a) the body must first _________________ the invader (which is called an _______________________) b) the body then makes more ________________cells. c) Some WBC start to produce ______________________ which help destroy the antigen
12) Once your body knows how to make antibodies, __________________ cells remember how to do this and can make them faster a second time
13) A harmless form of the antigen is what is in a __________________________. This stimulates the immune system so it is ready if the real antigen should infect you.
14) The first vaccine was against what disease? _______________________ This vaccine involved giving a person a related (but harmless) disease called ______________________.
15) If your immune system attacks your own cells, you have an ________________________ disease.
16) What does the ID in AIDS stand for? ________________________________
17) When you get a new heart, the first danger is that your body may _________________________
To prevent this, they give you drugs to slow down your immune system. This poses a second danger which is ____________________________________
18) Penicillin is the first ________________________ used. It is made by ______________ It kills __________________. It does not kill viruses.