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Principles of treatment and the prevention of diseases

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following diseases is not spread through sexual contact?

a)

AIDS

b)

Tetanus

c)

Syphilis

d)

Gonorrhoea

2.

Who among the following discovered vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Gregor Mendel

3.

Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

a)

Chikungunya

b)

Filariasis

c)

Measles

d)

Encephalitis(Brain fever)

4.

In which of the following diseases houseflies act as a vector?

a)

Cholera

b)

Malaria

c)

Dengue

d)

Yellow fever

5.

We can prevent a disease by:

a)

Preventing exposure to infectious microbes.

b)

Providing proper and sufficient food.

c)

Immunization

d)

All the above

6.

Vectors can be defined as:

a)

Microorganisms which cause many diseases

b)

Animals carry the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person.

c)

Infected person

d)

Diseased plants

7.

Immunisation is

a)

a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.

b)

Introducing dead or weakened germs in the body of living being for developing immunity for a specific disease

c)

the ability of an organism to cause disease

d)

Antigen - antibody complex

8.

Which one of the following is correctly paired?

a)

Swelling and pain - Inflammation

b)

Develops immune system - Antibiotic

c)

Weakens the immune system - Immunization

d)

Hepatitis - Bacterial disease

9.

Name the vaccine used against tuberculosis.

a)

BCT

b)

TAB

c)

BCG

d)

DPT

10.

Antibiotics are ineffective against the viral infections. For each type of the viral infection, human body produces its own antiviral protein that is released from the infected and dying host cells. What is this protein called?

a)

Leishmania

b)

Ascaris

c)

Interferon

d)

Pertussis