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  • Created on: 10-10-22 20:26

1. How do viruses make us ill?

  • when a virus has copied itself a few times by infecting a few cells and our body’s normal functioning changes
  • when a virus has copied itself so many times by infecting many cells and our body’s normal functioning changes
  • when a virus has copied itself, quite a number of times by infecting most of our cells and our body’s normal functioning changes
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2. How do antibodies help the immune system?

  • they are given to an infected person as a medicine to help get rid of the infection.
  • they are produced by the white blood cells and help immobilise/identify the pathogen so it can be destroyed.
  • they are produced by the pathogen so they can avoid being detected by the immune system

3. Epidemiologists who study the outbreaks of disease and how they spread would be interested in knowing the reproduction number. What does the reproduction number R0, tell us?

  • the average number of people an infected person infects other people in the middle of an epidemic
  • the average number of people an infected person infects other people at the start of a pandemic
  • the average number of people an infected person infects other people at the start of an epidemic
  • the average number of people an infected person infects other people at the end of an epidemic

4. What does immunity mean?

  • a reaction by the body that detects and destroys pathogens before they make you ill
  • a shield from the disease to prevent you getting ill
  • a natural reaction to get away from the disease to prevent you getting ill

5. 4. Name the four types of pathogens.

  • virus and protists
  • phagocytes
  • protists, fungi, virus and bacteria
  • fungi, protasts, bacteri,
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