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Disease Study Worksheet
1. What is the definition of an infectious disease?
2. What is the definition of a non-infectious disease?
3. What are the four main groups of pathogens?
4. What is the difference between a vaccine and a booster?
5. What is an epidemic?
6. What does STD stand for?
7. List 3 infectious diseases caused by viruses.
8. What are 3 ways in which diseases can be transmitted?
9. What does AIDS stand for? Why is it so dangerous?
10.List 3 examples of non-infectious diseases.
11.What happens to the cells of a person who has cancer?
12.List 3 facts about heart disease.
13.What is the function of insulin?
14.What is the name of the disease that develops in people whose bodies cannot
make enough insulin?
15. List 4 ways to protect yourself from infectious diseases.
16. Hepatitis is a disease caused by which pathogen? What part of the body is
infected?
17. How is milk pasteurized?
18.How do white blood cells fight disease?