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water-Borne Diseases

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Cholera

Typhoid

Diarrhea rota virus (prevention)

Hepatitis A

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wilsonโ€™s disease

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  • copper accumulation
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minamata

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  • mercury
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Itai-itai disease

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cadmium poisoning

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Acute disease

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short period of time

fever, cold, cough

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Chronic diseases

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long period of time

eg Diabetes, TB, elephantiasis (Filariasis)

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COMMUNICABLE

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AIDS, cold, chicken pox, COVID

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NON-COMMUNICABLE

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eg: diabetes, arthritis, glaucoma, polio

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Pandemic
Epidemic
Endemic

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Pandemic Sudden increase ๐™–๐™˜๐™ง๐™ค๐™จ๐™จ ๐™จ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ก ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™จ, continents, or the world

Epidemic : ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™™๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™š in cases spreading through ๐™– ๐™ก๐™–๐™ง๐™œ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ

Endemic : These disease are
๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™– ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ง๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃwith relatively low spread

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VIRUSES

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Dengue ey jivi ki vastundi
Influenza influence vadi
Polio poll pettaru
Hepatitis peta lo
Small pox chinna
Chicken pox kodi,
Rabies kukka ki vastai ani
Measles meesam melesaru
Goitre
Meningitis Men
Herpes Her

AIDS
Jaundice
Mumps
Rubella virus RuV

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cannot be treated with antibiotics

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Virus

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Hepatitis affects

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affects liver

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Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C

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Hepatitis A : Transmission through food, water

Hepatitis B : Sexually transmitted through bodily fluids

Hepatitis C : Transmitted when in contact with infected blood

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Indiaโ€™s first indigenous Hepatitis-A vaccine

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Havisure

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Jaundice affects

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liver

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yellow fever

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Jaundice

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Mumps affects

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affects the ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™™ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ซ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™œ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ

๐™ˆ๐™ช๐™ข - ๐™‹๐™–๐™งent

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Polio

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Poliornyelitis virus

Entovirus

eradicated from India, as declared in 2014

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1st polio vaccine by

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Dr. Jonas Salk

Inactivated (killed) polio vaccine (IPV)

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polio day

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24 Oct

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Live attenuated Oral polio vaccine by

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Dr. Albert Sabin

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Cervical Cancer virus

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Human Papillomavirus HPV

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Cervical Cancer test

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Smear test

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Dengue

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flavi virus

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carrier of Dengue
Aedes aegypti mosquito (Chikungunya)
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AIDS virus
HIV human immunodeficiency virus - Retrovirus (RNA)
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AIDS test
ELISA test (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
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Measles virus
Rubeola Virus
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Swine flu Bird flu
Swine flu H1N1 Bird flu H5N1 Swini Hini
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Small pox Vaccine
Edward ๐—๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฎ (แด„สœษชษดษดแด€ pox)
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Mendelian Disorders
Change in gene (gene defects) Thalassemia Sickle Cell Anaemia Colour blindness
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Down syndrome
Autosomal trisomy 21 - 21st pair extra copy untadi 23paris - 22 pairs autosomes (chromosomes that are not sex chromosome)
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Turner's syndrome
X-chromosome is missing only in female
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Klienfelter syndrome
Presence of an extra copy of X-chromosome in males
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Asthma
Fungi
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Fungi
Baldness Athlete's foot Ring worm Scabies - Skin disease Asthma fastma
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Malaria
Protozoa - Plasmodium
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malaria carrier
female Anopheles mosquito
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malaria treatment
Quinine - Cinchona tree
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Malaria detection
VIVAX test
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Malaria day
25th April
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Sleeping sickness
Protozoa Trypanosoma
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Kala Azar
protozoa - Leishmania Enlarged spleen
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sleeping sickness carrier
Tse Tse flies Tzzz Tzzz......
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Bacteria
Tuberclosis Tube Bacteria Bat Cholera colour Pneumonia new Typhoid Type. Plague play Diptheria Dip Whooping cough whoop Leprosy lepandi Syphills lepi pills ivvandi Trachoma lekapothe coma Gonorrhoea Gone
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Kala Azar carrier
Sandly
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Death due to plague
Black death
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Antibiotics used to treat
Bacteria
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Plague caused by
Yersinia pestis
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Leprosy caused by
Mycobacterium leprae
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Hansen's Disease
Leprosy
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Locked jaw
Tetanus - Clostridium tetani
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Whooping cough also known as
Pertussis
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Pneumonia
streptococcus Alveoli affected
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Typhiod
Salmonella typhi
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Acne
Staphylococcus bacteria
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white plague
Tuberclosis (TB)
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Tyohiod test
Widal test
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Tuberclosis vaccine
BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) TB BCG
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Tuberclosis caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Cholera caused by
Vibrio cholera
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Blue death
Cholera

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