Fighting Disease: Vaccination, drugs, past & future

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What are harmful microbes called?
pathogens
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Name the two main types of pathogen
bacteria viruses
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What tiny pathogen reproduces rapidly in the body?
bacteria
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What pathogen makes you ill by damaging your cells and producing toxins
bacteria
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What pathogen isn't a cell?
virus
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What pathogen replicates themselves in your cell and produce many copies of themselves causing your cell to burst?
virus
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what causes you to feel ill from a virus?
cell damage
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What three things prevent pathogens entering your body?
skin hair mucus
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what helps blood clot quickly
platelets
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whats the most important part of your immune system?
white blood cells
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White blood cells can digest
foreign cells
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White blood cells produce ...
Antibodies and Antitoxins
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every foreign cell has an
Antigen
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antibodies are
proteins
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Vaccinations contain small amounts of
dead microorganisms
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what do vaccinations have in them which causes your body to produce antibodies?
antigens
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what do we do if a vaccination wears off?
booster vaccination
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Vaccination helps prevent international
epidemics
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Name a negative of vaccination
allergic reactions
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what do pain killers relieve
pain
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painkillers help to
relieve symptoms
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antibiotics
kill pathogens
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antibiotics don't destroy
viruses
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some bacteria can... and harm you again
mutate
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Who cut deaths by using Antiseptics
semmelweis
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Why is it hard to vaccinate people against viruses
mutation
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