Infectious Diseases

What is the job of the immune system?

• To protect your body from drugs and medicine
• To protect your body from air and water
• To protect your body from pathogens
• To protect your body from itself

True or False?
The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissue, and organs that work together to protect the body

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What is one of the ways that antibiotics work? 

• They can stop bacteria from reproducing
• They can stop viruses from reproducing
• They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts
• They engulf the pathogens

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A bacterium
• A virus
• A fungus
• A protist

Pathogens known as ____ must get inside cells to reproduce.

• viruses
• bacteria
• fungi
• protist

What is one MAJOR organ of the Immune System?

• Spinal Cord
• Brain
• Skin
• Heart

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Strep throat is caused by 

• bacteria
• virus

The flu is caused by

• bacteria
• virus

Bacteria can only be spread through coughing

• False
• True

Viruses...

• use a host to reproduce
• breath oxygen
• grow
• eat food