Reading Exercise_10-2_The Spanish Flu

something difficult or worrying that you are responsible for

• burden
• lnuit
• buboes
• dishonor

loss of respect from other people

• dishonor
• virus
• dishonest
• epidemic

a large number of cases of a disease that happen at the same time

• epidemic
• pneumonia
• antibiotics
• infection

the system by which your body protects itself against disease

• immune system
• epidemic
• immune response
• Inuit

a disease that affects a particular part of your body and is caused by bacteria or a virus

• infection
• mutate
• infected
• burden

someone who belongs to a race of people who live in the very cold northern areas of North America<br />

• Inuit
• burden
• crisis
• ancestors

an official piece of paper signed by a doctor saying that you are too ill to work <br />or that you are completely healthy

• medical certificate
• immune system
• diploma
• medical license

if an animal or plant mutates, it becomes different from others of the same kind, <br />because of a change in its genetic structure

• mutate
• dishonor
• prescribe
• Immune

a serious illness that a effects your lungs and makes it difficult for you to <br />breathe.

• pneumonia
• infection
• pneumothorax
• mutate

a very small living thing that causes infectious illnesses

• virus
• medical certificate
• burden
• pneumonia