Identify the disease from the following, symptoms. Continuous muscular contraction Frothy discharge from the mouth Clenching of the teeth Patient falls unconscious. Write the cause of this disease.

In epilepsy, the functioning of the brain and the nervous system becomes abnormal. Symptoms of epilepsy are continuous muscular contraction, frothy discharge from the mouth, clenching of the teeth following which the patient falls unconscious. The main cause of this disease is the continuous and irregular flow of electric charges in the brain. In this condition seizures usually last for 1-3 minutes and the seizures lasting more than five minutes are fatal.

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Name any two diseases caused by parasitic worms?

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Name the factors that lead to transformation of normal cells into Cancer cells.

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List out four concepts that can be included in the pamphlet to be distributed in an awareness programme against dengue fever.

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Name two methods used in the treatment of Cancer.

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Analyse the following statements related to certain diseases and give the reasons for each.

In hepatitis, dark yellow colour appears in the white portion of the eyes and the nails.

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_____ is a viral disease.

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What environmental factors may cause cancer in humans? If the water level in the sea increases enormously due to global warming, what problems will the humans and bio-diversity of Sunderbans face?

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Identify the disease from the following, symptoms.

Continuous muscular contraction
Frothy discharge from the mouth
Clenching of the teeth
Patient falls unconscious.

Write the cause of this disease.

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It is generally observed that malaria is rampant in areas where construction work and/or stagnant water are usually seen. Plasmodium species are known to cause malaria. The parasite when injected by the mosquito into the human bloodstream goes through specific life cycle stages. Select from below the correct sequence of stages.

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How is Tuberculosis transmitted?

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Find out who am I.

I coined the term vaccine and vaccination for protective inoculation.

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Where was ‘cattle – Plague’ spread in 1890?

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