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Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal and community health Grades 9-12, page 197 The severity of disease symptoms is dependent on many factors, such
as human resistance and the virulence of the disease, producing organism.
Many diseases can be prevented, controlled, or cured. Some diseases, such
as cancer, result from specific body dysfunctions and cannot be transmitted.
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Benchmark 6E The Human Organism: Physical
Health
Grades 6-8, page 145
Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites may infect the human body and
interfere with normal body functions. A person can catch a cold many times
because there are many varieties of cold viruses that cause similar symptoms.
Benchmark 6E The Human Organism: Physical
Health
Grades 9-12, page 146
Some viral diseases, such as AIDS, destroy critical cells of the immune
system, leaving the body unable to deal with multiple infection agents
and cancerous cells.
Benchmark 8F The Designed World: Health
Technology
Grades 6-8, page 206
Sanitation measures such as the use of sewers, landfills, quarantines,
and safe food handling are important in controlling the spread of organisms
that cause disease. Improving sanitation to prevent disease has contributed
more to saving human life than any advance in medical treatment.
Benchmark 8F The Designed World: Health
Technology
Grades 6-8, page 206
It is becoming increasingly possible to manufacture chemical substances
such as insulin and hormones that are normally found in the body. They
can be used by individuals whose own bodies cannot produce the amounts
required for good health.
Benchmark 8F The Designed World: Health
Technology
Grades 9-12, page 207
Inoculations use weakened germs (or parts of them) to stimulate the
body's immune system to react. This reaction prepares the body to fight
subsequent invasions by actual germs of that type. Some inoculations last
for life.