Infectious Disease

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Micro organism

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Bacteria, virus, fungi

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Cause disease

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Pathogens,

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Pathogens - bacteria

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Produce toxins that cause damage to the body

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Virus

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Infect body cell, then reproduce, cell break open and be perfectly damage

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Defend itself

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White blood cells

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White blood cells

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Ingest pathogens, produce anti bodies, produce anti toxins

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Ingesting pathogens

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White blood cell recognise pathogens and gravel towards it, then engulf it and ingest the bacteria by releasing enzymes that break down the pathogen

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Anti bodies

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White blood cells produce antibodies that match the antigens and attach, they then start to break down pathogen

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Anti toxins

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Release them to counter act the toxins released by the anti gens

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Protect from future infection

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Vaccination

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Vaccination

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Copy of harmful pathogen that is dead, white blood cells still produce anti bodies that will attack the antigens, it will remember the antibodies if the harmful pathogen is found in the body

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MMR

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Measles, mumps, rubella - linked to autism sometimes

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Ignaz semmelweis

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Doctor, 1850's, noticed that cases of children fever it was low with midwives but high with medical students, as the medical student worked with dead bodies and not washed his hands before they delivered the baby. Outcome - started washing hands.