Food and Water Borne Diseases

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‘Improvement in water and sanitation can control many diseases’. Explain with the help of examples.

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What are occupational respiratory diseases?

Q. Define immediate cause and contributory cause.

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Elephantiasis is caused by

1. Wuchereria

2. Pinworm

3. Planarians

4. Liver flukes

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why female Anopheles Mosquito being a vector of Malaria carrying the pathogen plasmodium never gets Malaria disease rather than human being gets malaria

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Cholera is caused by

1. Virus

2. Bacteria

3. Fungi

4. Protozoa

Q. Why do we drink boiled water?

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Definition of plague

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Which bacteria was found in Ganga water indicating contamination?

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Diarrhea is an air-borne disease.

1. True

2. False

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Find the odd one out.Give a reason for your answer

1. Diarrhoea

2. Jaundice

3. Malaria

4. Typhoid

Q. List any two measures which you would take to prevent from water borne diseases.

Q.

___ bacteria are found in the human intestines that pollute the water.

Q. What measures would you take to prevent water-borne diseases?

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Which one of the following is not a bacterial disease?

1. Cholera

2. Tuberculosis

3. Anthrax

4. Influenza

Q. Which of the following is a water borne disease?

1. T.B
2. Hepatitis
3. Small pox
4. Cancer

Q. ............ and ............ are two common waterborne diseases.

Q. Which is not a water borne disease?

1. Asthma
2. Amoebiasis
3. Cholera
4. Typhoid

Q. A bacterial disease caused due to contaminated water.............

Q. Which of the following is NOT a food or waterborne disease?

1. Typhoid
2. Diarrhea
3. Tuberculosis
4. Cholera

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_______is a parasite in the intestine of man that causes disease.

Q. Describe the causative agent, symptoms, treatment and preventive measure of any two of the following human diseases:

1. Dysentery
2. Dengue fever
3. Pneumonia
4. Filaria

Q. Explain mode of transmission of Diarrhoea.

Q. Which one of the following diseases is not due to contamination of water ?

1. Hepatitis-B
2. Typhoid
3. Cholera
4. Jaundice

Q. The coliform count in drinking water is done

1. To ascertain faecal contamination
2. To assess hardness of water
3. To determine the effect of chlorination
4. To estimate the amount of suspended imputities

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Is asthma a lifelong lung disease?

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Identify the word pair relationship:

Cholera : ___

___ : Viral

Q. Ascariasis spreads through

1. Droplets seen in air
2. Air and physical contact
3. Contaminated food and water
4. Vectors

Q. Which of the disease will take longer to heal?

1. Influenza
2. Common cold
3. Cough
4. Asthma

Q. Which of the following factors are causes of disease?

1. Poverty
2. Weak immunity
3. Poor sanitary conditions
4. All of the above