B5 Communicable diseases

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Communicable (Infectious) Disease

Disease caused by pathogens that can be passed from one organism to another

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Non-Communicable Diseases

Diseases that are not infectious and cannot be passed from one organism to another

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Pathogens

Microorganisms that cause disease

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Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)

Disease transmitted from an infected person to an uninfected person by unprotected sexual contact

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Vaccine

Dead or inactive pathogenic material used in vaccination to develop immunity to a disease in a healthy person

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Virus

Pathogens that are much smaller than bacteria and can only reproduce inside living cells of other organisms