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diseases
8Ca Superbugs
Diseases caught in hospital that are very hard to treat!
8Ca A hidden world
complexity putting
kingdoms organisms
into groups
viruses
bacteria
protactists
fungi
plants animals
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BCb Microbes in action
Yeast die as they run out of food [glucose] and by alcohol.
8Cc Under atttack
8Cd Stopping the spread
etc.
8Cd Self defence chemical in tears
skin
to stop the scabs
microbes getting
into the body cilia in trachea, mucus,
phelgm
acid in stomach
to kill microbes
hairs in nose
once they get in
the body white blood cells
engulf
antibodies
8Ce Beating infections
Antibodes remain in
blood so white blood
cells remember how to
fight microbes. We stay
immune
to the disease.
A vaccine infects us
with a small amount of
the microbe or a similar
microbe so we make
antiboides and
remember how to fight
them.
8Ce Medicine men
Antibiotics harm bacteria.
Antibiotics have no effect on viruses.