Prevention of Infection Crossword Puzzle

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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.

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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.