1. Diseases
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!!

2. DISEASE
An illness or condition that prevents the body from functioning normally

3. 2 MAJOR TYPES OF DISEASES
COMMUNICABLE
NON-COMMUNICABLE

4. NON COMMUNICABLE
A DISEASE THAT CAN NOT BE PASSED FROM ONE PERSON (OR ANIMAL) TO ANOTHER, EXAMPLES: CANCER, ASTHMA

5. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
DISEASE THAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED (spread) FROM PERSON TO PERSON
EXAMPLES: THE FLU, CHICKEN POXS

6. CAUSES OF ILLNESSES
VIRSUS
BACTERIA
FUNGI
PROTOZOA

7. Living microscopic organisms that may cause disease (strep)
BACTERIA
Living microscopic organisms that may cause disease (strep)

8. VIRUS
Microscopic organisms that cause disease. (not living organisms, ex: stomach virus)

9. Organisms that get their nutrients from other living or dead things.
FUNGI
Organisms that get their nutrients from other living or dead things.
Example athlete’s foot

10. Single celled microscopic organisms. Example: ticks and Lyme's disease
PROTOZOA
Single celled microscopic organisms.
Example: ticks
and Lyme's
disease

11. How Diseases are Transmitted
Through the Air
By touch
On Food
Through Body Fluids such as spit, licking something or mucus

12. Vaccine
substance that is usually injected into a person or animal to protect against a particular disease

13. Epidemic Epidemic and Pandemic Pandemic
affecting a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time
Pandemic
an occurrence in which a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people over a wide area or throughout the world

14. Prevention Washing hands (hand sanitizer) Discard tissues immediately
Visit doctor for check up and vaccinations
Cover your sneezes or coughs
Stay home if you are sick

15. Prevention continued
Get enough sleep
Eat Healthy