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Class 5 Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
Get concise answers on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including their transmission, prevention, and common examples. Improve your knowledge on diseases today!
Q: What is a communicable disease?
A disease caused by microorganisms that can be spread from an infected person to another person through contact.
Q: Give examples of communicable diseases.
Influenza, measles, and malaria.
Q: What are deficiency diseases?
Diseases caused by inadequate intake of an essential nutrient in the diet.
Q: Name some non-communicable diseases.
Hypertension, diabetes, and cancer.
Q: Can germs cause disease just by entering the body?
No, germs need appropriate conditions, such as warmth, moisture, and a weakened immune system, to multiply and cause disease.
Q: What are some examples of communicable diseases?
Influenza, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid, and malaria.
Q: How are germs of communicable diseases typically transferred to healthy individuals?
Through air, water, food, insects, or physical contact with an infected person.
Q: What are vectors?
Organisms such as insects, mites, and ticks that transmit germs to humans and animals.
Q: What are some diseases spread by vectors?
Malaria, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.
Q: How do insects become vectors of disease?
They pick up disease agents from dirty areas such as human foodstuffs, wastes, garbage, drains, and dirty water bodies.
Q: What are the three body parts of a mosquito?
Head, thorax, and abdomen.
Q: What is the proboscis of a mosquito used for?
It is an elongated, tubular and flexible mouthpart used by female mosquitoes for sucking blood.
Q: What diseases can be transmitted by mosquitoes?
Malaria, dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, among others.
Q: How do mosquitoes transmit diseases to humans?
The germs causing the disease reproduce inside the mosquito and are then passed on to other humans when the mosquito bites them.
Q: How is malaria typically transmitted?
Through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito.
Q: What is the incubation period for the Plasmodium parasite in mosquitoes?
7 to 10 days.
Q: How does the Plasmodium parasite spread to humans?
