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WorksheetsY8 Disease Transmission
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
When a pathogen is moved from person to person through physical touch (kissing, hugging, close-up sneezing, shaking hands).
Transmission
Translation
Emission
Direct Contact
Indirect Contact
How can the rate of an infectious disease be reduced?
By preventing transmission between people
By wearing clean clothing
What is significant about an infectious disease?
It can be passed from person to person
It cannot be passed from one person to another
If pathogens are in your salad....
You will get sick
You will not get sick
You will get sick if you ingest your salad
None
What type of transmission is shown?
Airborne
Contact
Vectorborne
Ingestion
Select ALL possible routes of transmission...
Contact
Airborne
Ingestion
Virusborne
Which conditions are good for microbe growth?
(More than one correct answer)
Good food source
Dry
Moist
Warm temperature
Bacteria may grow on raw food, such as steak. How can it be made safe to eat?
Heat it to a high temperature
Freeze it, then eat it
Heat it to 37 degrees
Add salad
Rabies can be spread by...
animals
air
infected food
indirect contact
Disease can be caused by what types of microbe?
(Only one correct answer)
Fungus
Virus
Bacteria
All of the above
True or False: Bacteria do not have a nucleus
True
False
A microbe that causes disease is known as a...
Virus
Disease
Pathogen
Illness
