Infectious diseases

________ spreads from the bite of a certain kind of mosquito.

• malaria

• typhoid

• heart attack

Germs of scabiies and ring worm are present on the ______ of infected person.

• hair

• eye

• skin

If faeces of an _________ person enter the water, it spreads diseases too.

• healthy

• infected

• educated

Every infectious disease is caused by a specific micro-organism or a germ.

• True

• False

We can use clothes and toothbrush of an infected person.

• True

• False

Insects like lice, mosquitos and fleas do not spread diseases.

• True

• False

To prevent the spread of diseases, health and community welfare programmes are undertaken at the national level.

• True

• False

List down 3 examples of diseases which spread through water.

List down 3 examples of diseases which spread by insects.

Air, water, food and direct contact are the _________ of the spread of diseases.

• people

• mediums

• causes