Human Diseases Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• animals : original host of many emergent diseases
• epidemic : a rapid increase in a disease
• westnile : transmitted among birds by mosquitoes
• cardiovascular : disease that causes more deaths than all others
• tobacco : top health risk in developed countries is _ use
• prions : responsible for mad cow disease
• sars : severe acute respiratory syndrome
• acute : a disease that rapidly impairs a body's function
• poverty : top health risk in developing nations
• tuberculosis : contagious disease that infects the lungs
• respiratory : most infectious diseases affect the _ system.
• pandemic : rapid spread of a disease over a large geographic area
• mosquito : vector of malaria
• pathogen : disease causing organism
• fleas : vector of the plague bacterium
• chronic : disease that slowly impairs the body
• madcow : a neurological disease
• ebola : an emergent disease example
• aids : most common infectious disease