Human Health Part 1 Terminology

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A condition characterized by severe loss of the body's cellular immunity due to infection with HIV

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AIDS

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Single-celled organism that can multiply very rapidly. Most are harmless but some may cause diseases like strep throat

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Bacteria

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injection of a fluid-like substance that produces immunity against a disease

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Vaccination

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the protective protein shell surrounding viral RNA

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Capsid

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a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite. People experience fever, chills, and flu-like illness

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Malaria

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a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and animals. (EX: Cold, SARS, MERS, COVID-19)

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Coronaviruses

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Disease-causing agent, such as a bacterium, virus, or parasite

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Pathogen

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Something that potentially causes harm

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Hazard

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The disease that is caused by something other than a living organism and does not spread from one to another

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Nontransmissible Disease

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Process of determining how to bring toxin to acceptable levels and at what cost

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Risk Management

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A potentially serious infectious bacterial disease that affects the lungs, Most infections show no symptoms (latent)

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Tuberculosis

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rapid spread of an infectious disease to a large community of people in short period of time

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Epidemic

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occurs when enough people become immune to a disease to make its spread unlikely

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Herd Immunity

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acts as a messenger carrying instructions for the manufacture of proteins

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RNA (ribonucleic acid)

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a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system your nose, throat and lungs

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Influenza

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Probability of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, death, economic loss, or damage

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Risk

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a viral infection that causes liver inflammation and damage

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Hepatitis B

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Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses

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Antibody

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a virus that attacks t cells that help the body fight infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections

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HIV

Question 20

Using statistics to estimate how much harm a particular hazard can cause to human health

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Risk Analysis

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Organism that lives on or inside another organism and feeds on it. Can cause serious disease

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Parasite

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caused when a pathogen such as a bacterium, virus, or parasite invades the body and multiplies in its cells and tissues

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Infectious Disease

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medicine that fight bacterial infections They work by killing the bacteria or by making it hard for bacteria to multiply

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Antibiotics

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disease widespread over a whole world

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Pandemic

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a non-living agent made of protein and RNA that requires a host cell in order to reproduce

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Virus

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part of a virus that your immune system uses to recognize it as a foreign substance

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Antigen

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An infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another

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Transmissible Disease

Human Health Part 1 Terminology

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Human Health Part 1 Terminology

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