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AP Environmental Science Vocabulary Chapter 17

Terms in this set (10)

Disease
any impaired function of the body with a characteristic set of symptoms
Infectious Disease
a disease caused by a pathogen
Acute Disease
a disease that rapidly impairs the functioning of an organism
Chronic Disease
a diseass that slowly impairs the functioning of an organism
Epidemic
a situation in which a pathogen causes a rapid increase in disease
Pandemic
an epidemic that occurs over a large geographic region
Plague
an infectious disease caused by a bacterium that is carried by fleas
Malaria
an infectious disease caused by one of several species of protists in the genus Plasmodium
Tuberculosis
a highly contagious diseas caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily infects the lungs
Emergent Infectious Disease
an infectious disease that has not been previously described or has not been common for at least 20 years
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