Download Infectious Diseases Research

Names:
Infectious Diseases
Directions: use internet sources to answer the following questions.
1. What are pathogens?
2. What is an infectious disease?
How is it caused?
3. What is a non infectious disease?
How is it caused?
4. How do pathogens make you sick?
5. What are the four groups of human pathogens? Give an example from
each of these four groups.
6. How can you become infected by a pathogen?
of each type of infection.
Give an example
7. List some common diseases that are caused by viruses.
8. List some common diseases that are caused by bacteria.
9. List some common diseases that are caused by protists.
10. What is immunity?
11. Why do people get vaccinations?
What do they do?
12. What is asthma?
How do you contract it?
13. What kind of immunity do injections containing antibodies provide?
14. Give three ways that you might prevent infectious diseases.
15. What is an antibiotic?
16. What is athlete’s foot?
17. What is strep throat?
18. What is diabetes?
19. What is Parkinson’s?
20. What is skin cancer?
How do you contract it?
How do you contract it?
How do you contract it?
How do you contract it?
How do you contract it?