Question

45 R 10 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AND INFECTION CONTROL Activity H Think About It! Briefly answer the following questions in the space provided. 1. If a pathogen manages to get past the first lines of defense of the human body, such as the skin and the mucous membranes, and an infection results, the body activates a general immune response that helps to fight off the infection. List and briefly describe signs that you may observe in a person who has an infection. 2. Why do most of us get the "childhood diseases” such as measles and chicken pox only once? COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AND THE CHAIN OF INFECTION Key Learning Points

Answer 1

Fever is the first sign of infection. Along with this fatigue, tiredness, swallwen lymohnodes, nausea and vomotting and headche are the signs of infection. Some of the disease like measles or chicken pox once happened it will leave it's immunity for lifelong and that's why the disease will not occur lifelong.