Defenses Guide 7
This guide introduces our body defenses as well as medical interventions against pathogens.
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Defenses Guide Contents
Complete all four of these sections before taking the quiz and submitting your two journal pages.
Guide 7 Defenses Objectives
This guide’s quiz has four questions; one matching each objective.
Defense Systems
Explain how the integumentary system, cardiovascular system, skeletal system, and lymphatic system play a role in defense; describe the two non-specific innate defenses and the two specific acquired defenses; and sketch and label the processes of inflammation as well as the two specific defenses, cell-mediated and antibody-mediated immunity.
Immunity
Provide an overview of various blood cells involved in immunity and their roles; describe the lymphatic system, including what lymph is and how it travels through the body; and list various immune disorders. including immune cancers, immunodeficiency, autoimmune, and hypersensitivity diseases.
Eliminating Diseases
List examples of human-to-human, vector, and environmental infectious disease transmission; describe the pathogens, form of transmission, and symptoms associated with smallpox and polio; and explain how vaccines work and why they are critical in controlling infectious diseases.
Persistent Threats
Describe tuberculosis, including the form of transmission, degree of infection without symptoms, possible damage to lungs, global occurrence, and antibiotic resistance; explain how Ebola is transmitted, the impacts on an individual’s body, overall mortality rate, and the status of a vaccine; and describe HIV structure, how it infects cells, the infection that progresses in a human over time, and how AIDS impacts the body.
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