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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?