B5 - Communicable Diseases

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Your health is a state of physical and mental well-being not just an absence of disease

Question 2

How can pathogens spread?

Answer 2

Pathogens can spread by air or water and they live and reproduce inside your body

Question 3

How can pathogens enter your body?

Answer 3

Through sir you breathe,eat or drink,cuts or open wounds

Question 4

How does your body try and prevent pathogens getting in?

Answer 4

Mucus,tears,cilia,stomach acid,skin,scabs

Question 5

How does measles spread and what are the symptons?

Answer 5

Symptoms - fever and red skin or rash

How does it spread - spread by inhalation of droplets,coughs and sneezes and is infectious

Question 6

How does HIV spread and what are the symptons?

Answer 6

Spread - Sexual contact or exchange of body fluids

Symptoms - Flu-like illness

Question 7

How does TMV spread and what are the symptoms?

Answer 7

Symptoms - Mosaic pattern of discoloration on leave

Spread - contact between diseased plant , can remain in soil for 50 years

Question 8

Measles,HIv and TMV are exmples of…?

Answer 8

Viruses