Health, Disease and Treatments

• Communicable Disease - A disease that can be passed from one organism to another.
• Non-Communicable Disease - A disease that is not passed from one organism to another.
• Health - Free from communicable and non-communicable disease
• Active Immunity

  Body produces own antibodies to combat pathogen.

  • Slow acting.
  • Lasts long (memory cells).
• Passive Immunity

  Body receives injection of antibodies from another source.

  • Fast acting.
  • Lasts short time.
• Antibiotics - chemicals that kill bacteria or stop their growth.
• Aseptic Technique - procedures to avoid contamination
• Aseptic - Free from microbes