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6. What is meant by the term 'droplet infection' when talking about spreading diseases?

  • When any bodily fluids pass from one person to another when one person has an illness.
  • When you cough, sneeze or talk, tiny droplets full of pathogens from your breathing system leave your body. Other people breathe them in along with the pathogens they contain.
  • When droplets of sweat are exchanged through physical contact. These sweat droplets contain pathogens which transfer and pass through other people's skin into their blood system making them ill.

7. Some white blood cells produce antitoxins. What is meant by this term?

  • Antitoxins counteract the toxins released by pathogens by joining with them like a jigsaw puzzle
  • They poison the pathgens to kill them
  • Both of the above