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1 Living Things

1.5 Medicines and infectious diseases

We are going to…

• learn why we take medicines

• describe how to take medicines safely

• find out that plants, animals and people can get infectious diseases
• learn that vaccinations can prevent some diseases in people and

animals

• do research to answer questions about vaccinations.

Getting started

The girl in the picture is taking medicine.

1 Have you ever taken medicine? Why did you take it?

2 The girl is taking a liquid medicine. What other kinds

of medicines do you know of?
3 Why do you think an adult is giving the medicine

to the girl?

germs

infect

infectious disease
instructions

medicines

prevent

vaccinations

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