Types of disease Flashcards

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How can bacteria make us feel ill?

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Producing toxins that damage your cells and tissues

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How does fungi cause disease ?

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Hyphae grow and penetrate human skin or the surface of plants

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How do pathogens spread between people?

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  • water
  • air
  • direct contact
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4
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How are mosquitos involved in he spread of malaria ?

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It carries the disease

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5
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What type of pathogen causes salmonella food poisoning?

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Bacteria

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How can the speeead of gonorrhoea be prevented ?

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Wearing a condom

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What are pathogens?

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Microorganisms that enter the body and cause disease

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What is meant by a communicable disease?

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A disease that can easily spread

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9
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List all the viral diseases

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Measles
HIV
tobacco mosaic virus

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10
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What symptoms of measles is shown on the skin ?

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A red skin rash

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What effect does rose black spot have on a plant ?

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It causes purple or black spots to develop on leaves

Turn yellow and drop off

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How is gonorrhoea transmitted?

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Sexual contact

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13
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How can vaccinations help limit the spread of disease?

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Vaccinations stop people from developing the disease so that they cannot pass it on to someone else

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14
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Describe initial symptoms of HIV infection

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Flu like

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15
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Give the symptoms of gonorrhoea

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Pain when urinating

Green or yellow discharge

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16
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Give the symptoms of salmonella

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  • fever
  • stomach cramps
  • vomiting
  • diarrhoea
17
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What is meant by the term pathogen?

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A microorganism that causes disease

18
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Outline how HIV can be spread ?

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By sexual contact

Exchanging bodily fluids

19
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Why is it important chefs wash their hands before cooking ?

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To prevent the contamination of food by disease cause pathogens that may be on the chefs hands

20
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Why is hand washing not useful in limiting the spread of malaria?

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Malaria is spread by vectors

Not through contaminated foods or surfaces

21
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Explain why efforts to limit the spread of malaria free focus on the mosquito

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Mosquitos are the vectors of malaria, so destroying them will help the spreading of malaria

22
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How do viruses make u feel I’ll?

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Replicate themselves inside your cells

The cells burst

The cell damage make u feel I’ll

23
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What are protists?

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Singled-called eukaryotes

24
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What is a vector?

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Insects that carry the protist

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How do measles spread ?
Droplets of an infected persons sneeze or cough
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What are the symptoms of measles ?
Red skin rash and a fever
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How can HIV be controlled?
Antiretroviral drugs These stop the virus replicating them sleves
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What does the discolouration of leaves mean in TMV?
The plant cant photosynthesis as well and the virus affects the growth
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How does rose black spot spread?
Water or wind
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What type of disease is rose black spot?
Fungal
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Give an explains of a bacteria causing disease?
Salmonella and gonorrhea
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What causes malaria?
Protist
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What is the life cycle of malaria?
The vectors picks up the disease when they feed on an infected animal Every time it feeds on another animal it infects it with malaria
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What are the symptoms of malaria
Repeating episodes of fever
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How can we prevent or reduce the spread of disease?
* isolation infected individuals * be hygienic * vaccination * destroying vectors