________ cause many familiar diseases, such as malaria and kalaazar.
Protozoan microbes
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________, entering through a mosquito bite, will go to the liver, and then to the red blood cells.
Malaria causing microbes
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HIV
An infection like ________, that comes into the body via the sexual organs, will spread to lymph nodes all over the body.
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AIDS
Other than the sexual contact, the virus causing ________ (HIV) can also spread through blood- to- blood contact with infected people or from an infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or through breast feeding.
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________ can not have such an impact on human cells since they don't produce cell walls.
Penicillin
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________ feed on many warm- blooded animals, including us.
Mosquitoes
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A(n) ________ recruits many cells to the affected tissue to kill off the disease- causing microbes.
active immune system
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________ contacts include handshakes or hugs or sports, like wrestling, or by any of the other ways in which we touch each other socially.
Casual physical
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________ are conditions that can persist for a very long time, even a lifetime .. An example is the infection causing elephantiasis, which is very common in some parts of India.
Chronic diseases
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a disease is due to _______ of body function
malfunctioning
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an acute disease is a _____ duration disease.
short
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________ diseases are found by birth
congenital
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*Allergy is an example of __________ disease*
Non-communicable
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____________ is a vector of a viral disease called dengue
*Aedesaegypti*
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HIV stands for __________
Human immunodeficiency virus
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*______* is the ability of the body to protect itself from infection and disease.
immunity
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On the basis of __________, physicians look for signs of disease.
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