CSI Hannah Davis
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- Asthma
- Airways in lungs that become narrowed and make breathing difficult.
- Passive Immunization
- When a person is given antibodies.
- Mast Cells
- Antigens that releases histomine.
- Vaccinations
- A small amount of dead or weakened pathogen that is introduced to the body. It prepares the immune system to prevent future infections.
- Immune Memory
- When pathogens are made to remember how to defend against immunity.
- Antibodies
- White blood cells produce antibodies that smother the pathogenic invader and kill it.
- Septicaemia
- The invasion and persistance of pathogenic bacteria in the blood stream.
- Antibiotic
- Medicine that acts against bacterial infections.
- MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus Aureus)
- Bacteria is sometimes found in hospitals and can infect wounds following surgury.
- Smallpox
- A killer disease, until it was eradicated by 1980. Skin sores and damage to body organs.
- Tetanus
- Caused by bacterium that lives in soil adn enters the body through wounds and cuts.
- Milk-made
- Women that use to milk cows adn developed cowpox which protected them agianst smallpox.
- HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiensy virus) (aquired immunodeficiency syndrome)
- Infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It attacks adn destroys the immune system (deadly).
- Toxin
- A poisenous substance.
- United Kingdom
- A kingdom in northwestern Europe consisting of Great Britain, and northern Ireland.