Communicable Diseases

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Which of the following is not a communicable disease?

(a) cholera (b) cancer (c) chickenpox (d) malaria

Q.

What diseases are caused by viroids?

Q. What are the various ways in which communicable diseases can occur and spread?

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Which of these diseases spread through air?

1. Common cold
2. Tuberculosis
3. Influenza
4. Cholera

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Casual organism of any disease is called ____.

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(a) What is meant by communicable diseases ? Name any two communicable diseases .

Q. Which of the following diseases spread through air?

1. Common cold
2. Tuberculosis
3. Influenza
4. Cholera

Q. State the causative micro-organisms and modes of transmission of the following human diseases: Tuberculosis.

Q. A disease which can be transmitted from one individual to another is called communicable disease.

1. True
2. False

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Pneumonia is a non communicable disease.

1. True
2. False

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Which among the following are communicable diseases?

1. Cataracts

2. Tuberculosis

3. Chickenpox

4. Cancer

Q. Mention the symptoms and the mode of transmission of Anthrax disease in animals.

Q.

What are communicable disease

Q. Which of the following diseases is communicable?

1. Diabetes
2. Cholera
3. Asthma
4. Cancer

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Which statement about Tuberculosis is incorrect?

1. It is caused by Salmonella

2. It commonly affects lungs

3. Patients sputum contains blood

4. Causative bacteria release a toxin tuberculin

Q.

Which of the following are types of disease-causing agents?

1. Viruses, bacteria and fungi

2. Measles, mumps and chicken pox

3. Cholesterol, saturated fats and helminthes

4. All of the above.

Q. Given alongside is a crossword puzzle. Read the clues across and clues downward, and fill up the blank squares.

Clues across
1. Category of pathogen that causes diseases, like common cold and mumps.
5. This is the vaccine for preventing tuberculosis.
6. An organ usually affected by tuberculosis.
7. Jumbled spelling of one of the most common insect which visits our exposed foods and contaminates them.
8. Cover this part of your body by a handkerchief while sneezing to prevent droplet infection to others.
9. These may readily grow in your hair, if you do not wash it regularly.
10. A disease that weakens body’s defence system against infections.
Clues down
1.Germ or germ substances introduced into the body to prevent occurrence of an infectious disease.
2. A disease caused by the bite of an infected dog, and which affects the central nervous system.
3. A disease in which the eyes, the skin and the urine turn yellow.
4. The disease pertussis is popularly known as whooping………

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Fill in the blank with appropriate disease name given in the bracket below,

In __(communicable/non-communicable) diseases, microbes cannot be transmitted from infected person to a susceptible person by contact or by any other methods.

Q. Find the odd one out:
Cold, AIDS, dengue, malaria, measles.

Q.

The diseases caused by biological agents are called diseases.

Q. How do houseflies carry disease-causing microbes (or pathogens)?

Q.

What are first-level causes of the disease?

Q. Write short notes (2-3 sentences) on the following:
Immunisation

Q. if a dieseas is non communicable then how do people get those dieseases if those dieseas cant communicate

Q. Wuchereria is found in

1. Kidneys
2. Lymph nodes
3. Liver
4. Lungs

Q. What are non-communicable diseases? Explain using a few examples.

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A child is suffering from severe vomiting and acute diarrhoea. Mention two precautions to avoid it.

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Choose the correct options for the diseases that spread through the air.

1. Common cold

2. Tuberculosis

3. Influenza

4. Cholera

Q. Diseases where microbes are the immediate cause are called ____________ Disease.

1. Non-infectious
2. Acute
3. Chronic
4. Infectious

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What are contributing causes of disease ?