Diseases and its Causes
Diseases and its Causes: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Disease, Acute Disease, Chronic Disease, Causes of Diseases, Non-infectious Diseases, Cancer, High Blood Pressure, Peptic Ulcers, Symptoms of Disease, Signs of Disease, etc.
Important Questions on Diseases and its Causes
Choose the diseases that occur suddenly and last for a few days.

Cold is an example of chronic disease.

What are the examples of acute diseases.

How signs are different from symptoms of a disease explain?

Write a short note on high blood pressure or hypertension.

High blood pressure is an infectious disease.

Write the causes of high blood pressure.

Mention any two health problems that are associated with high blood pressure?

Which of the following is a non-infectious disease?

Which one of the following is the correct matching of a disease with its causative organism and mode of infection?
Diseases | Causative organism | Mode of infection |
(a) Pneumonia | Streptococcus pneumoniae | Droplet infection |
(b) Typhoid | Salmonella typhi | With inspired air |
(c) Malaria | Plasmodium vivax | Bite of infected male Anopheles mosquito |
(d) Elephantiasis | Wuchereria bancrofti | With contaminated food and water |

Which one of the following is a deficiency disease?

The disease that has a long term effect on the health of a person is _____.

Any condition that interferes with the normal body functions due to some reasons is called:
(Hint- The word begins with the letter D.)

Alok ate fruit salad from a roadside vendor. The fruits had been cut and exposed to dust and flies. What type of diseases has he exposed himself to?

Define the term incubation period.

Meghan left school early on Tuesday as she was suffering from common cold. The next day, Meghan’s classmate Rita fell sick too. Why did this happen?

“ Good habits lead to a healthy life" – Based on this statement, identify the odd picture among the following pictures,

The micro-organisms _____is a protozoan that causes sleeping sickness in human.

Which of the following is a mismatch

Fever,delirium,slow pulse,abdominal tenderness and rose coloured rash indicate the disease
