Types of disease Flashcards
How can bacteria make us feel ill?
Producing toxins that damage your cells and tissues
How does fungi cause disease ?
Hyphae grow and penetrate human skin or the surface of plants
How do pathogens spread between people?
- water
- air
- direct contact
How are mosquitos involved in he spread of malaria ?
It carries the disease
What type of pathogen causes salmonella food poisoning?
Bacteria
How can the speeead of gonorrhoea be prevented ?
Wearing a condom
What are pathogens?
Microorganisms that enter the body and cause disease
What is meant by a communicable disease?
A disease that can easily spread
List all the viral diseases
Measles
HIV
tobacco mosaic virus
What symptoms of measles is shown on the skin ?
A red skin rash
What effect does rose black spot have on a plant ?
It causes purple or black spots to develop on leaves
Turn yellow and drop off
How is gonorrhoea transmitted?
Sexual contact
How can vaccinations help limit the spread of disease?
Vaccinations stop people from developing the disease so that they cannot pass it on to someone else
Describe initial symptoms of HIV infection
Flu like
Give the symptoms of gonorrhoea
Pain when urinating
Green or yellow discharge
Give the symptoms of salmonella
- fever
- stomach cramps
- vomiting
- diarrhoea
What is meant by the term pathogen?
A microorganism that causes disease
Outline how HIV can be spread ?
By sexual contact
Exchanging bodily fluids
Why is it important chefs wash their hands before cooking ?
To prevent the contamination of food by disease cause pathogens that may be on the chefs hands
Why is hand washing not useful in limiting the spread of malaria?
Malaria is spread by vectors
Not through contaminated foods or surfaces
Explain why efforts to limit the spread of malaria free focus on the mosquito
Mosquitos are the vectors of malaria, so destroying them will help the spreading of malaria
How do viruses make u feel I’ll?
Replicate themselves inside your cells
The cells burst
The cell damage make u feel I’ll
What are protists?
Singled-called eukaryotes
What is a vector?
Insects that carry the protist