B5: Communicable Diseases

Question 1

What is Measles?

Answer 1

-Measles is a virus that hijacks thr host’s cell to reproduce the disease
-Common colds, coughing, sneazing, and runny nose are the common symptoms
-Rashes may appear but can clog up to form bloody patches causing possible blindness and brain damage

Question 2

How can you catch it?

Answer 2

-It spreads through sneezes and coughs which can be very infectious

Question 3

How can you treat it?

Answer 3

There is no treatment but to prevent it is through getting a vaccine

Question 4

What is Salmonella?

Answer 4

-An infection common bacterial disease which typically lives in animals and human intestine
-Humans become infected more frequently though fontaminated water or food

Question 5

How is it spreaded?

Answer 5

-Can be spreaded by an infected person who is ill
-Either a carrier whith contaminate foodstuff by poor hand hygine
-Contact with infected animal both farm and domestic

Question 6

What are the symptoms?

Answer 6

-Abdominal tummy pains
-Fevers
-Headaches
-Nausea and vomiting
-General tiredness

Question 7

How to prevent it?

Answer 7

-By washing carfully and throroughly by washing your hands and preparing your food safetly

Question 8

What is HIV?

Answer 8

-It is a virus that slowly attacks the immune system
-The system cannot fight off the infection which develops AIDS

Question 9

How can it spread?

Answer 9

-HIV is transmitted from a mother to her baby during pregnancy
-Through sex, or sharing needles, syringes or other drug injection

Question 10

How to prevent it?

Answer 10

-Powerful tools can help prevent HIV

Question 11

What is Gonorrhoea?

Answer 11

-An sti which is a bactieria call neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus
-Used to be know as the ‘clap’

Question 12

What are the symptoms?

Answer 12

-Vaginal or genital strange discharge
-Pain or burning sensation when passing urine
-Pain or tenderness in lower abdominal area

Question 13

How can we prevent it?

Answer 13

-Usually treated with antibiotics
-Having a antibiotic injection in the nuttocls or thigh area
-Can use a tablet

Question 14

What is Tobacco mosaic?

Answer 14

-A virus plant pathogen

Question 15

What are the symptoms?

Answer 15

-Yellow spotting on leaves
-Distinct yellowing of only veins

Question 16

How does it spread?

Answer 16

-Spread from plant to plant or workers hand clothing or on tools
-This is called mechanical transmission

Question 17

How to prevent it?

Answer 17

-No cure for tobacco mosiac
-Once infected the plant remains infected for lifes

Question 18

What is Rose Black Spot?

Answer 18

-A fungal disease which purple black spots develops on leaves
-A serious disease full of roses a diplocarpon

Question 19

What are the symptoms?

Answer 19

-large, purplish or black patches appear the upper leaf surface
-Leaf tissue turn yellow around the spots and the leafs often drops even though other parts are as yet unaffected

Question 20

How to prevent it?

Answer 20

-Keeping the leaf dry as possible, in the spores to be wet
-Avoid water as much as possible especially in early in the morning so they can dry

Question 21

What is Malaria?

Answer 21

-A parasite that belongs to the genus Plasmodium as it may a fatal disease cause by a parasite

Question 22

What is the symptoms?

Answer 22

-Fever
-Flu-like illness
-Shaking chills
-Headache, muslce, and tiredness
-Diarrhea

Question 23

How does it spread?

Answer 23

-Getting bitten by an infective mosquito
-Mosquito transmit malaria and must have infected through blood meal

Question 24

How to prevent it?

Answer 24

-Apply mosquito repellent with DEET to expose skin
-Put screens on windows and doors