Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases: Overview
In this topic, we will focus on different types of diseases. It briefs on communicable diseases along with their symptoms and causes. We will also study the different methods by which we can prevent and control communicable diseases.
Important Questions on Communicable Diseases
Dysentery is a bacterial disease.
Give the scientific name of the causative agent of dysentery.
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| Name of the disease | How transmitted | Responsible germ | Means to avoid the disease |
Any organism capable of producing a disease is called _____. (microbe/ agent/ pathogen)
Write the genus name of organism that causes typhoid.
Identify the diseases caused by Protozoans.
Make a list of bacterial diseases.
Which are various media of spreading the infectious diseases?
How do the following diseases spread? (Hepatitis, malaria, scabies, T.B., dengue, dysentery, ringworm, swine flu)
An example of infectious disease is
Which one of the following causes kala-azar?
_____ (Flavivirus/ Plasmodium/ Giardia) is transmitted to the human body by the bite of female Anopheles mosquito.
Cholera is caused by the bacterium _____.
Which of the following is not a congenital disease?
What are communicable or infectious diseases?
What are the symptoms of cholera?
Write five names of disease caused by virus.
