infectious diseases

Question 1

What is the definition of infectious diseases?

Answer 1

• disorders caused by organism (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites)
• organism live in our bodies, not every may can cause a disease

Question 2

Which types of the spread can be differentiate?

Answer 2

• direct contact
• indirect contact
• insect bites
• food conatmination

Question 3

Direct contact?

Answer 3

• easiest way to catch most of infectious diseases
  1. Person to person
• direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or other germs
• when person with bacterium kisses, touches someone
  2. animal to person
• pats can carry many germs
• bitten or scratched by an animal can make you sick
  3. mother to unborn child
• pregnant mother may pass germs to her unborn child

Question 4

indirect contact:

Answer 4

• germs can linger on a object such as a doorknob

- if someone with a flu touch this, this object will transfer this infectious

Question 5

insect bites

Answer 5

• some germs rely insect carries (such as mosquitoes)

- mosquitoues can carry e.g. a parasite

Question 6

food contamination:

Answer 6

-machnism of transmission allows germs to be spread to many people through a single source