Factors Affecting BR And DR (Disease)

Question 1

What do diseases affect?

Answer 1

The life expectancy in a country

Question 2

What can disease epidemics cause?

Answer 2

Disease epidemics can cause the death rate in a country to rise

Question 3

Epidemics happen?

Answer 3

Epidemics happen in a local scale such as in a region or country

Question 4

What is HIV an example of?

Answer 4

HIV is an example of a modern pandemic

Question 5

How many people have died from the HIV and AIDS pandemic?

Answer 5

At least 25 million by 2013

Question 6

In 2010 how many people were infected with HIV and AIDS?

Answer 6

36 million people were infected across the world

Question 7

Where do the majority affected live?

Answer 7

Two thirds of the people infected live in Africa.

Question 8

About HIV and AIDS and HIV positive people

Answer 8

There is no cure for HIV and AIDS.

HIV-positive people can take medicines which help them to live for many years

Question 9

What is TB

Answer 9

Tuberculosis is a disease that affects a person’s lungs

Question 10

How is TB transferred?

Answer 10

When someone with TB coughs or sneezes, the air is filled with tiny droplets that contain the TB bacteria. If another person breathes in those droplets, he or she will become infected with TB.

Question 11

What does TB do, next to HIV and AIDS?

Answer 11

Next to HIV and AIDS, TB kills more people in the world than any other disease.

Question 12

In 2010 how many people died of TB?

Answer 12

1,4 million people died

Question 13

Without proper treatment what happens to people with TB?

Answer 13

Two out of every three people who have TB will die

Question 14

What are the two main reasons for the spread of TB?

Answer 14

Poverty and HIV

Question 15

How can diseases spread more easily?

Answer 15

Poor people often live in overcrowded conditions without access to good health care, diseases spread more easily in these conditions.

Question 16

Why do people with HIV get TB?

Answer 16

People with HIV often get TB because their bodies are very weak.

Question 17

How many people in (SA) are infected with TB?

Answer 17

About 900 people out of every 100 000 people in South Africa are infected with TB (2013)

Question 18

How is malaria caused?

Answer 18

Malaria is caused by a type of parasite that us spread by certain types if mosquitoes.

Question 19

How can you get malaria?

Answer 19

When an infected mosquito bites a person, it puts the malaria parasite into that person’s blood. The parasite first enters and multiplies inside the liver, before entering the blood system where it multiplies further.

Question 20

Which people most often die from malaria?

Answer 20

Children

Question 21

How can people prevent malaria?

Answer 21

By sleeping under mosquito nets, and using insect repellent and preventative medication like prophylaxis.

Question 22

What can people with malaria do?

Answer 22

People infected with malaria can pass the malaria parasite on to other mosquitoes.

Question 23

How many children in Africa die every day from diarrhoea?

Answer 23

About 2000 children

Question 24

What is diarrhoea?

Answer 24

Diarrhoea is a symptom of gastroenteritis, which can be caused by a viral or bacterial infection.

Question 25

What does gastroenteritis cause?

Answer 25

Gastroenteritis causes the body to lose important liquids and minerals. If these liquids and minerals are not replaced, children can die.

Question 26

Diarrhoea epidemics occur more often in?

Answer 26

In poor areas where the water is not safe to drink and there are no proper toilets.

Question 27

How can diarrhoea be prevented?

Answer 27

Diarrhoea can be prevented by boiling all drinking water.

Question 28

How can diarrhoea be treated?

Answer 28

It can be treated by giving the sick person a drink made from 1 litre of water, 6 level teaspoons of sugar and half a level teaspoon of salt.

Question 29

What have disease pandemics and epidemics done in the past?

Answer 29

Disease epidemics and pandemics of smallpox, cholera and flu have wiped out millions of people in the past.

Question 30

What was the most serious pandemic in history?

Answer 30

The most serious pandemic in history was a disease called the Black Death that swept across Europe in the 1350s.

Question 31

What was the real name for the Black Death?

Answer 31

Bubonic Plague

Question 32

How was Bubonic Plague spread?

Answer 32

Bubonic Plague was spread by fleas that lived on rats.

Question 33

What happened to people with Bubonic Plague?

Answer 33

People infected with Bubonic Plague got sores all over their bodies. Before they died, parts of their bodies turned black.
There was no cure for Bubonic Plague, people either survived or they died a horrible and painful death.

Question 34

How many people did Bubonic Plague kill in the 1350s?

Answer 34

About half of Europe’s population, that could have been 100 million people.

Question 35

How did smallpox come about?

Answer 35

In 1713 a ship arrived in Cape Town containing sheets infected with the disease, smallpox. Nobody knew the sheets contained smallpox. Local workers took the sheets to their village to wash them. About twelve days later, the workers and their families began to fall ill.

Question 36

What were the symptoms of smallpox?

Answer 36

The infected people got blisters all over their bodies and they developed fevers and became weak.

Question 37

When was the first smallpox epidemic in Southern Africa?

Answer 37

In 1713

Question 38

Is there still smallpox in the world today?

Answer 38

Luckily for us, theirs is no smallpox in the world today. Scientists have wiped out the virus that causes the disease.