Preventing Disease

Question 1

How do you prevent diseases

Answer 1

• Being hygienic
• Destroying vectors
• Isolating infected individuals
• Vaccination

Question 2

Being hygenic

Answer 2

Simply washing your hands can reduce bacteria or viruses from being caught and spread

Question 3

Destroying vectors

Answer 3

1: by getting rid of organisms that spread disease, you can prevent the disease being passed on
2: Vectors that are insects can be killed using insecticides by destroying their habitat so they can no longer breed
3: an example would be killing mosquitos to stop malaria from spreading

Question 4

Isolating individuals

Answer 4

If you isolate someone who has a communicable disease, it prevents them from passing it on to anyone else

Question 5

Vaccination

Answer 5

Vaccinating people and animals against communicable diseases means, that they can’t develop the infection and pass it on to someone else.