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1
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What symptoms does Ebola have?

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Fever, muscle pain, headache

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What symptoms does HIV have?

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Flu like symptoms

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What symptoms does Cholera have?

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Diarrhoea, stomach cramps, vomiting

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What symptoms does Salmonella have?

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Fever, abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea

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What symptoms does Gonorrhoea have?

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Thick yellow/green discharge from the vagina or penis, pain when urinating

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What symptoms does Chalara ash dieback have?

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Loss of leaves, legions on bark

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What symptoms does Malaria have?

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Recurrent episodes of fever

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What symptoms does Tuberculosis have?

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Coughing up blood

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What type of pathogen causes Tuberculosis?

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Bacteria

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What type of pathogen causes Malaria?

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Protist

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What type of pathogen causes Chalara ash dieback?

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Fungus

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What type of pathogen causes Gonorrhoea?

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Bacteria

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What type of pathogen causes Salmonella?

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Bacteria

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What type of pathogen causes Cholera?

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Bacteria

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What type of pathogen causes HIV?

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Virus

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What type of pathogen causes Ebola?

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Virus

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How do you get Ebola?

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When people come in contact with infected blood or body fluids

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How do you get HIV?

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Through sexual contact or exchange of body fluids (needles)

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How do you get Cholera?

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Drinking unclean water, eating food handled by an infected person

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How do you get Salmonella?

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Contaminated food

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How do you get Gonorrhoea?

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Sexual contact

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How do you get Chalara ash dieback?

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From the wind

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How do you get Malaria?

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Bitten by a mosquito

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How do you get Tuberculosis?

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When a person with active TB disease in their lungs coughs or sneezes and someone else inhales the expelled droplets, which contain TB bacteria

25
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Treatments for Tuberculosis

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Antibiotics

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Treatments for Malaria

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Use mosquito nets, anti malarial tablets

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Treatments for Chalara ash dieback

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Removing affected leaves and trees from the area, cut the trees down

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Treatments for Gonorrhoea

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Antibiotics, use barrier method of contraception

29
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Treatments for Salmonella

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Rest, painkillers

30
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Treatments for Cholera

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Antibiotics

31
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Treatments for HIV

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Antiretroviral drugs

32
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Treatments for Ebola

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Prevented by vaccination

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