1. Infectious Disease Response Card Review After each definition is read, write the correct vocabulary word.

2. This fungal disease is spread by contact with contaminated objects such as flip flops. Answer Answer

3. Athlete’s foot Next Definition Definition

4. This viral disease is spread by contact with infected persons or contaminated objects such as kissing or used tissues. Answer Answer

5. Flu Next Definition Definition

6. Protection against a disease by receiving antibodies made in another individual. Answer Answer

7. Passive immunity Next Definition Definition

8. An organism that causes a disease. Answer Answer

9. Pathogen Next Definition Definition

10. A chemical substance made by the body to help destroy an invading pathogen. Answer Answer

11. Antibody Next Definition Definition

12. Scientists worry that if this virus mutates, it could be passed from person to person and not just bird to person. Answer Answer

13. Avian bird flu Next Definition Definition

14. This viral disease is spread by contact with body fluids of infected persons. Answer Answer

15. Hepatitis Next Definition Definition

16. An organism that helps a disease spread. Answer Answer

17. Vector Next Definition Definition

18. This bacterial disease is spread by a bite from an infected tick. Answer Answer

19. Lyme disease Next Definition Definition

20. To change the genetic make-up of an organism. Answer Answer

21. Mutate Next Definition Definition

22. A small dose or a fragment of pathogen that is introduced to the human body to help the immune system fight disease. Answer Answer

23. Vaccine Next Definition Definition

24. An organism that is infected with and can transmit a disease- causing microbe to another living thing, even though the organism shows no symptoms of illness or disease. Answer Answer

25. Carrier Next Definition Definition

26. Active immunity to this disease is most often acquired by getting it when you were a child. Answer Answer

27. Chicken pox Next Definition Definition

28. A group of medicines used to kill or slow the growth of bacteria that cause disease. Answer Answer

29. Antibiotics Next Definition Definition

30. A substance that is designed to kill microbes before they can enter the body. Answer Answer

31. Antimicrobial products Next Definition Definition

32. This bacterial disease is spread by eating contaminated food. Answer Answer

33. Botulism Next Definition Definition

34. A disease that is spread by sexual contact with an infected person. Answer Answer

35. Sexually-transmitted disease Next Definition Definition

36. Protection against a disease acquired by being infected with the pathogen that causes the disease. Answer Answer

37. Active immunity Next Definition Definition

38. A disease that spreads over a wide geographic area. Answer Answer

39. Epidemic Next Definition Definition

40. An epidemic that spreads worldwide. Answer Answer

41. Pandemic Next Definition Definition

42. A category of diseases that can be spread from one person to another. Answer Answer

43. Contagious disease Next Definition Definition

44. This occurs when bacteria develop a tolerance to and survive treatment with drugs that once killed them. Answer Answer

45. Antibiotic resistance Next Definition Definition

46. A tiny organism that can be seen with only a microscope. Answer Answer

47. Microbe Next Definition Definition

48. The End!!!