Infectious Disease Non Infectious Disease

A disease is defined as

• any physiological abnormality or significant disruption in the ‘normal’ health of an organism.

• an inherited condition caused by genetic mutations.

• coughing, muscle pain and the development of an increased body temperature.

Select the non-infectious disease.

• Thread worms

• COVID-19

• Influenza

• Cancer

____________ is the general term for something that is passed from person to person and causes diseases.

• Bacteria

• Pathogen

• Probiotic

• Mosquito

Sars-Cov2 virus that lead to Covid19 disease is example of ___________ disease that transmitted through droplet transmission.

• waterborne

• airborne

• landborne

"Cholera, Typhoid, Amoebic dysentery"

are the common diseases that are transmitted through _____

• air

• touch

• vector

• water

Airborne disease can be prevented by practising the following, except

• cover nose and mouth when sneezing or cough.

• wash your hand with water only

• avoid being in crowded places

• avoid handshake

The following skin disease is spread through ___________

• air

• contact

• water

• vectors

An animal that transmit pathogen from one host to another is called a __________

• species

• vector

• predator

• prey

Mosquito is the vector for...

(You can choose more than one answer.)

• zika virus

• dengue virus

• malaria

• thread worms

______________ is the disease that can be transmitted from one individual to other individual.

• Non-infectious disease

• Infectious disease

• Genetic disease

• Sporadic disease