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Disease
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a condition of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that impaires normal functioning and typically has signd or symptoms
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Communicable (infectious) Disease
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Disease that can be spread form person to person. It is caused be a micro-organisms or other living things like fungi and protists
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Infection
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When a foreign species has populated in or on a host
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Noninfectious Disease
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Can't be transmitted by direct contact
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Acute disease
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Sudden, with severe symptoms...lasts a short time.
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Chronic Disease
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Long lasting disease....usually mild symtoms
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contagious
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can spread funm person to person, usually mild symptoms.
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Incubation period
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time between a person being infected and symptoms showing.
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Epidemic
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Disease simultaneously attacking a large number of people in a geographical
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Pandemic
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Desease attacking the whole world at the same time
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host
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a living animal or plant in which a parasite or virus lives in or on
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virus
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Tiny, nonliving particle
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Bacteria
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single celled organism that lacks a nucleus
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Parasite
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an organism that benefits from living on or in a host
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Immune system
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system of the body that protects you from sickness and disease
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