Disease Study Worksheet - Central Dauphin School District



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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?

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