Spread Of Disease

Question 1

What are the four modes of transmission

Answer 1

Direct contact (person to person), through cuts or breaks in the skin, in water, breathing in microbes

Question 2

Describe and give examples and symptoms for direct contact (person to person)

Answer 2

Touching the pus from spots of hugging someone who has the virus can spread it to you

Chicken pox virus
-rash, coughing, sneezing

Question 3

Describe and give examples and symptoms for disease spread through cuts or breaks in the skin

Answer 3

Caused by bacteria, lives on dirty objects e.g rusty nails, if an open cut touches the bacteria it will pass into the body, if something with the bacteria pierces the skin it can pass into your blood

Tetanus
-lock jaw, spasms

Question 4

Describe and give examples and symptoms for disease spread in water

Answer 4

Passed in urine, drinking dirty water containing the urine will make them infected, if someone goes to the toilet in a river then the water may make you ill if drank from

Cholera
- vomiting, diarrhoea, muscle cramps

Question 5

Describe and give examples and symptoms for disease spread by breathing in microbes

Answer 5

Spread by sneezing, virus carried into the air in mucus, if breathed in you become infected with the virus

Common cold
- coughing, sneezing, sore throat, headache, tummy ache