Disease Prevention

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease (3)
  2. 4. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  3. 8. Any organism of ___ size (13)
  4. 11. Tiny single-celled living things, some of which cause illness (8)
  5. 13. The abbreviation for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, an advanced stage of HIV infection. (4)

Down

  1. 1. Low in temperature; also a sniffly illness (4)
  2. 3. An agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but (10)
  3. 4. The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools (5)
  4. 5. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (4)
  5. 6. Anything that provides inspiration for later work (4)
  6. 7. Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts (5)
  7. 9. An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase (4)
  8. 10. An illness that harms the body (7)
  9. 12. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (3)