Bacteria

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    • Bacteria are single-celled organisms 100x smaller than the cells in our bodies. They reproduce by themselves, but do well inside our bodies due to a good food supply.
    • Salmonella
      • Food poisoning
      • Chicken caught disease when it was alive
      • In the UK most chickens are vaccinated
      • Fever
      • Stomach cramps
      • Vomiting
      • Diarrhoea
      • Often passes by itself within a week
      • Stay hydrated
    • Gonorrhea
      • STD
      • Passed on by sexual contact
      • Pain when urinating
      • Thick yellow or green discharge from vagina or penis
    • Gonorrhea
      -Prevention
      • avoiding unsafe sex, barrier methods of contraception
      -Treatment
      • Penicillin, however lots of strains have become resistant, so we have to use rarer and more expensive antibiotics.
    • Only a small minority of bacteria cause disease. Lots of bacteria don't affect other organisms at all, while many others are actually helpful.
    • Bacteria release small proteins called toxins. These can damage our cells and are responsible for many of the symptoms of bacterial diseases.