Across:2. | Transmitted through sexual contact, breast feeding or needle sharing between IV drug users. The most common types are HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and genital herpes. | 4. | The area of medical studies that examines the incidence, possible sources and prevalence of infectious diseases in communities of people. | 7. | The term used to define an organism capable of carrying and transmitting pathogenic bacterium and virus from one person to another; for example the house fly, mosquito, or flea. | 8. | A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms. | 9. | The most common form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium and the formation of buboes. | 12. | A condition that causes harm or interferes with the normal functioning of a living thing, generally caused by parasites and pathogenic micro-organisms, or possibly due to environmental, nutritional or genetic factors. An example is Malaria. |
| 15. | Disease that can be passed from one organism to another through contact usually by food, water or a vector, for example diarrhea. Some medical sources use this term synonymously with contagious or communicable. | 16. | A fever caused by a protozoan parasite which invades the red blood cells and is transmitted by mosquitoes in many tropical and sub-tropical regions. | 17. | When a disease is common or peculiar to a specific locality, region, or people; for example malaria is endemic in many tropical countries such as Papua New Guinea. | 18. | The term describing a disease prevalent across a wide geographic area such as a country, region or even the world. An example is the Black death (bubonic plague) which swept across Europe during the fourteenth century, and was one of the worst pandemics in human history. | 19. | Contracted when contaminated and dirty water is ingested. Usually occurs in places where sanitation and hygiene levels are poor; an example of this is cholera which is spread through the ingestion of contaminated water in developing countries where conditions are poor. |
| | Down:1. | A type of disease that occurs when people breathe in bacteria or viruses attached to dust particles, smoke or water vapor, causing them to become ill. Examples of these types of diseases include influenza, tuberculosis, smallpox and chicken pox. | 3. | One that is common to some groups of poelpe but able to affect animals. Examples include brucellosis, tuberculosis, human herpes virus and measles. | 5. | A term used to describe a range of conditions that people acquire due to a lack of food or particular nutrients and vitamins. Such diseases include xerophthalmia (vitamin A deficiency), beri-beri (vitamin B deficiency), scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), or anaemia (iron and folate deficiency) etc. | 6. | A pathogen or virus which originates or lives in another animal and transfers to people such as AIDS, anthrac, avian flu, Ebola virus, SARS, Bubonic plague, rabies etc. |
| 10. | A contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness. First appeared in china in 2002, and within months spread across the world. | 11. | When a disease spreads rapidly and affects many people at much the same time, resulting in widespread infection, particularly in an area or time when such infection is not common. An example was Australia’s 2007 influenza epidemic. | 13. | Injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing disease. | 14. | A disease in which there is a severe loss of the body’s cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy. |
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