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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

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Aedes aegypti mosquito (Chikungunya)

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AIDS virus

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HIV human immunodeficiency virus - Retrovirus (RNA)

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AIDS test

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ELISA test

(Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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Measles virus

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Rubeola Virus

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Swine flu
Bird flu

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Swine flu H1N1
Bird flu H5N1

Swini Hini

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Small pox Vaccine

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Edward ๐—๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฎ
(แด„สœษชษดษดแด€ pox)

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Mendelian Disorders

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Change in gene (gene defects)

Thalassemia
Sickle Cell Anaemia
Colour blindness

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Down syndrome

A

Autosomal
trisomy 21 - 21st pair extra copy untadi

23paris - 22 pairs autosomes (chromosomes that are not sex chromosome)

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Turnerโ€™s syndrome

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X-chromosome is missing
only in female

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Klienfelter syndrome

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Presence of an extra copy of X-chromosome in males

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Asthma

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Fungi

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Fungi

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Baldness

Athleteโ€™s foot

Ring worm

Scabies - Skin disease

Asthma

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Malaria

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Protozoa - Plasmodium

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malaria carrier

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female Anopheles mosquito

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malaria treatment

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Quinine - Cinchona tree

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Malaria detection

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VIVAX test

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Malaria day

A

25th April

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Sleeping sickness

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Protozoa Trypanosoma

39
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Kala Azar

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protozoa - Leishmania

Enlarged spleen

39
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sleeping sickness carrier

A

Tse Tse flies

Tzzz Tzzzโ€ฆโ€ฆ

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Bacteria

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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

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Sandly

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Death due to plague

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Black death

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Antibiotics used to treat

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Bacteria

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Plague caused by

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Yersinia pestis

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Leprosy caused by

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Mycobacterium leprae

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Hansenโ€™s Disease

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Leprosy

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Locked jaw

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Tetanus - Clostridium tetani

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Whooping cough also known as

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Pertussis

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Pneumonia

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streptococcus

Alveoli affected

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Typhiod

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Salmonella typhi

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Acne

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Staphylococcus bacteria

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white plague

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Tuberclosis (TB)

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Tyohiod test

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Widal test

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Tuberclosis vaccine

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BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin)

TB BCG

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Tuberclosis caused by

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Cholera caused by

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Vibrio cholera

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Blue death

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Cholera

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