Question

What is common between mumps, cholera and TB ?

• A. Bacterial diseases
• B. Communicable diseases
• C. Viral diseases
• D. Endemic diseases

Answer 1

The correct option is B Communicable diseases

Communicable diseases may be classified by a variety of methods: by clinical syndrome, mode of transmission, methods of prevention (example, vaccine preventable), or by major organism classification, that is, viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic disease.
Cholera is a bacterial infection caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with Vibrio cholera.
Mumps is a viral disease caused by the mumps virus. Tuberculosis is caused by bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

So, all the given diseases are communicable diseases as they spread from an infected person to a healthy person.