Glencoe Health
Glencoe Health
1st Edition
McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780078913280
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Section 23.3: Fighting Communicable Diseases

Exercise 1
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Inflammatory response prevents further injury to the tissues and stops the invading pathogens.
Exercise 2
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Active immunity – The body develops naturally acquired active immunity when exposed to antigens from invading pathogens. Artificially acquired active immunity is developed from vaccine.

Passive immunity – The body acquires passive immunity when the body receives antibodies from another person or animal.

Exercise 3
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White blood cells that attack the invading pathogens are known as phagocytes.
Exercise 4
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The immune system remembers the antigen that it has dealt with before, therefore, it attacks and kills the former antigens once recognized.
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The immune system remembers the antigens that it has dealt with before and attacks it once recognized.
Exercise 5
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While you protect yourself from any physical harm and keeping safety measures, your body uses physical and chemical barriers to protect itself too. The skin, tears, mucous membrane found in your mouth and nose and your immune system does the duty of protecting your body.
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While you protect yourself from any physical harm and keeping safety measures, your body uses physical and chemical barriers to protect itself too.
Exercise 6
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Influences in our daily life that may affect our body are:
Studies, work, and daily social activities

Ways that these influences make it easy:

Walking on the way to school or work and choosing to have a balanced diet regularly.

Ways that these influences make it more difficult:

Busyness leads to lack of sleep and exercise, eating more on fast foods, and deprivation of time that may overall affect the lifestyle.

Exercise 7
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Keeping an up-to-date vaccination will give my body a better resistance
from harmful diseases.
Preventing the spread of disease starting from myself is the same as
protecting those around me as well as those that can’t be vaccinated.
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Preventing the spread of disease starting from myself is the same as protecting those around me.
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