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There are ways that we can prevent disease e.g. vaccines. Can you name 1 other and how it works?

Personal and environmental hygiene; sexual health; food hygiene; taking care when travelling e.g. only drinking bottled water; pet care

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What is the function of T-Cells?

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What is a disease?

A change in the body that produces a loss of health.

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The body has natural barriers that prevent pathogens entering the body, what are the 3 types?

Physical (e.g. skin), Chemical (e.g. saliva) and Biological

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Diseases are commonly classified into two types. What are these?

Infectious and non-infectious

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What does it mean when someone has developed immunity?

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What do we mean by an endemic disease?

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In 1948 the World Health Organisation redfined health as a combination of... (3 types of health)

Physical health , Mental health and Social well-being

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Diseases are transmitted through a process called chain of infection, which is...

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When people have a bacterial infection what treatment is prescribed?

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The third line of defence to stop a pathogen is the specific immune response, carried out by...

Lymphocytes

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What is the human immune system?

The immune system protects the human body against invasion by pathogens.

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How does a vaccination work?

Weak/dead forms of a virus/bacterium that do not cause ilness are injected which triggers a specific immune response that produces antibodies and memory cells.

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