Prevention of Infection Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• prevent : the best way to avoid a viral infection is to try to _ viruses from coming into contact with potential host cells.
• common sense : people should use this when implementing ways to prevent infection of disease.
• vegetables : part of eating nutritiously, people should include a diet full of fresh fruits and _ .
• c&d : a healthy intake of these vitamins can help the body fight pathogen infection and disease.
• pure water : drinking plenty of this helps flush toxins from the body.
• hands : as a part of proper sanitation, people should wash these regularly – especially when around sick people and before eating.
• public : as a way to contain pathogens, stay away from these places when you are sick.
• elbow : as a way to contain pathogens when you must be in public when you are sick, cough or sneeze into this.
• antibiotics : a medical intervention for treating bacterial infections is to take these drugs, which disrupt the metabolic processes of bacterial cells.
• viral : antibiotics are ineffective for treating this type of infection.
• vaccination : this medical intervention seeks to prevent infection by injecting people with a variety of substances.
• active : this type of immunity through vaccination seeks to activate a healthy body’s third line of defense to produce specific antibodies against a specific pathogen by injecting a weakened strain of the pathogen.
• passive : this type of immunity through vaccination seeks to protect a healthy or a sick person from contracting a disease by injecting specific antibodies directly into the person.
• negative side effects : as with all drugs, vaccines can cause these.
• informed consent : before deciding to take any drug, every person must be fully informed of all possible side effects, and be allowed to choose whether or not to take it, based on a true cost-benefit analysis. this is called _ _ .
• natural : this type of immunity can be acquired by catching the disease, fighting it and winning!
• herd : this type of immunity is a form of indirect protection that applies only to contagious diseases.
• hampered : herd immunity occurs when pathogen movement through a population is greatly _ , which may allow an individual to totally avoid an infection because other people contracted and became immune to the disease the pathogen causes.