HUMAN HEALTH

While discussing a particular disease, the teacher described the following symptoms found in a patient: fluid filled alveoli, fever, chills, cough, headache, lips and finger nails turning bluish. Which one of the following diseases should the student chose?

• Pneumonia

• Typhoid

• Malaria

• Common cold

What is NOT symptoms of Dengue fever?

• Vomiting

• High fever

• Nose bleeding

• Muscle pain

Which of the following is a substance usually prepared from killed or weaken pathogens?

• White blood cells

• Antibodies

• Lymph

• Vaccines

Two examples of diseases that can be transmitted through contact are ringworm and tinea.

• True

• False

Which way a pathogen can enter the body?

• Nose

• Injured skin

• Mouth

• All of the above

Infectious diseases are diseases caused by an organism such as a virus or a bacterium, which is called a:

• pathogen

• toxicant

• pandemic

• carcinogen

What is a vector?

• pathogen

• organism that carries pathogen

• type of infectious disease

• type of emerging disease

Tuberculosis, Zika fever and tinea are examples of infectious diseases.

• True

• False

Rat carries pathogen named Salmonella typhi.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

In our body, the first line of defence consists of skin and mucous membrane.

• True

• False