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This contributed to a rise in directly tansmitable diseases among humans
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This factor (in women) can have an effect on the immune system
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The route and probability of a disease being passed from organism to organism
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This led to larger populations, fixed residence, seasonality in workload, food abundance and alteration of local ecology
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This plays a role in susceptibility to infection, especially for individuals who are underweight or overweight
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This refers to the degree or ability of a pathogenic organism to cause disease
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This played a major role in the decline of diphtheria, bronchitis, pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, and measles before the introduction of vaccines
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The introduction of ______ led to the decline of smallpox
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Diseases that are transferred from animals to humans
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A disease that originates in birds, and is transmitted to pigs before being contracted by humans
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______ immunity involves the making of memory cells
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An outbreak of this disease in London (1854) was traced to contaminated water supplied by a pump on Broad Street
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This refers to a pathogen’s ability to hide from the immune system
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HIV uses this technique to evade the immune system
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This refers to a disease's ability to remain dormant in the body
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A mother passing antibodies to an infant through breastfeeding is an example of ______ immunity
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Trypanosoma brucei (a.k.a. African Sleeping Sickness) uses this technique to evade the immune system
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Vibrio cholera uses this technique to evade the immune system
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This facilitated the spread of epidemic disease in the ancient and medieval worlds
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A disease that is thought to originate in bats, and is passed to civet cats before being transmitted to humans
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Herpes zoster uses this technique to evade the immune system
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This antibody gets passed from mother to infant in breastmilk
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This can affect the strength of the immune system, particularly for individuals on the extreme ends of the spectrum
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A disease known to originate from SIV in chimpanzees and old world monkeys
