Infectious diseases

Question 1

Infectious, or communicable, disease

Answer 1

Diseases caused by pathogens that can be transmitted from infected to uninfected people.

Some can transmit from animals to people, or people to animals

Question 2

What is a disease?

Answer 2

A disease is an illness or disorder of the body or mind that leads to poor health.

Question 3

What are infectious diseases?

Answer 3

Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens and are transmissible, meaning that they can be spread between individuals within a population.

Question 4

Non-infectious disease

Answer 4

Diseases that are not caused by pathogens, but that may instead be inherited, or related to lifestyle factors or life events

Question 5

Examples of infectious diseases

Answer 5

Cholera

Tuberculosis (TB)

Malaria

HIV/AIDS

Question 6

Non-infectious diseases

Answer 6

Lung cancer

Sickle cell disease

Depression

Coronary heart disease

Question 7

Cholera’s pathogen and type of organism

Answer 7

Vibrio cholerae
Bacterium

Question 8

Malaria’s pathogen and type of organism

Answer 8

Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium vivax

Protist

Question 9

TB’s pathogen and type of organism

Answer 9

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis

Bacterium

Question 10

HIV/AIDS’s pathogen and type of organism

Answer 10

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Virus