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- Some people with _____ use an inhaler
- asthma
- You can reduce your risk for getting heart disease by eating foods high in
- fiber
- is caused by lack of blood flow to teh brain.
- stroke
- vaccines are preparations of
- killed or weakened germs.
- Everyone should receive vaccines for common communicable diseases
- before the age of six
- Never______ can help prevent the spread of HIV
- sharing objects that break the skin.
- sharing eating utensils is
- an unhealthy behavior
- protozoa
- causes Malaria, amebic dysentery and toxoplamosis
- Symptoms of ______ include high fever, fatigue ans muscle and joint aches.
- influenza
- The best treatment for cancer that has spread throughout the body is
- chemotherapy
- Avioding_________ may lesson your chance of getting skin cancer.
- sun exposure
- colds should be treated with
- rest, liquids, and over-the-counter medicines
- people suffering from atherosclerosis have fatty deposts on the
- inside walls of their arteries
- Direct contact, indirect contact, contact with animals, and contact with contaminated food or water are all ways that _______ spread
- germs
- infection
- is a result when germs invade the body, grow and harm the body's cells.
- Diabetes can be _____ by regulating diet and weight.
- controlled
- your immune system makes______
  to fight off infection.
- antibodies