Page 9 - #MeToo Movement

GLOSSARY

administers Applies chronic Taking place a plant, animal, or
or dispenses over a long time or other organism; also
recurring, as with known as DNA or RNA
allergic reaction symptoms of some
A response of the diseases herd immunity
body’s immune A population’s ability
system to something contagious Spread to prevent the spread
it senses as harmful. from one person or of a disease because
organism to another
It can cause swelling, through direct or the majority of people
difficulty breathing, indirect contact have been vaccinated
and sometimes death or previously infected
credible Trusted, reliable
analyzing Studying historical societies
carefully current events Events Professional bodies
happening now preserving, collecting,
antibodies Proteins economy How money and interpreting
produced by the is made, distributed, historical information.
immune system to and spent in a certain
fight off antigens country or region human right A basic
right based on shared
antigens Substances efficacy The ability to values that is believed
the immune system achieve the desired to belong to every
does not recognize outcome; effectiveness person in the world
and fights against epidemic A disease immunity The body’s

attenuated Reduced that spreads quickly ability to resist a
or weakened in effect, to a large amount disease
force, or value of people over a
wide area immunization The act
bias Strong feelings for feces Waste material of making someone
or against something immune to something,
released from the
boosters Doses of a bowels after food has often through
vaccine administered been digested vaccination
after the first one to genetic material maimed Scarred,
raise the effectiveness The material that stores disfigured, or
of the vaccine the genetic code of permanently damaged

44