Tag: infectious diseases - transmission and prevention
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Which of the following diseases is / are likely to spread in the entire community if a leaky septic tank contaminates the water supply?
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Cholera
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Typhoid
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Tuberculosis
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Both A and B
Contamination of drinking water sources by sewage can occur from raw sewage overflow, septic tanks, leaking sewer lines, land application of sludge and partially treated waste water. Sewage is a complex mixture and can contain many types of contaminants. The greatest threats posed to water resources arise from contamination by bacteria, nitrates, metals, trace quantities of toxic materials, and salts. Seepage overflow into drinking water sources can cause disease from the ingestion of microorganisms such as E coli, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Hepatitis A, and helminths. Septic tanks are enclosures that store and process wastes by bacterial decomposition. Badly constructed percolation systems may allow water to escape without proper treatment.This water may seep to the land surface, runoff into surface water or flow directly into the water table causing waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid, diarrhoea etc.
Which of the following diseases spread through air?
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Dysentery, cholera and typhoid
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Ulcer, heart attack and appendicitis
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Common cold and influenza
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Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome
Airborne diseases are caused by pathogenic microbes small enough to be discharged from an infected person via coughing, sneezing, laughing and close personal contact or aerosolization of the microbe. The discharged microbes remain suspended in the air on dust particles, respiratory and water droplets. Illness is caused when the microbe is inhaled or contacts mucus membranes or when secretions remaining on a surface are touched. Many common infections can spread by airborne transmission at least in some cases, including: anthrax (inhalational), chicken pox, influenza, measles, smallpox, and tuberculosis.
Which of the following is not an air-borne disease?
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Black stem rust of wheat
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Coffee rust
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Blast of rice
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Potato mosaic disease
An airborne disease is any disease that is caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air. Potato virus is transmitted by aphids by sticking to aphid mouth parts (stylet). The virus can be acquired from the infected plant within seconds, and transmitted to a healthy plant very fast. It can also be transmitted mechanically by machinery, tools, and damaging plants while walking through the field. Aphids are by far the most efficient means of transmission.
Salmonella bacteria are usually spread via
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Raw meats, poultry and eggs
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Pickled vegetables
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Home-canned vegetables
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Raw vegetables
Salmonella bacteria can be found in food products such as raw poultry, eggs, and beef, and sometimes on unwashed fruit. Food prepared on surfaces that previously were in contact with raw meat or meat products can, in turn, become contaminated with the bacteria. This is called cross-contamination.
The bacteria can enter the food supply in a number of ways, including:
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Improper food handling
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Poor hygiene
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During poultry and meat processing
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All of the above
Explanation: The most common type of enteritis is caused by food poisoning. You get it after ingesting food or water that is contaminated with bacteria.
Mycoplasma mycoides causes which of the following disease?
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Bovine pleuropneumonia
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Inflammation of genitals
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Agalactia
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None of these
Which of the following is the most common carrier of pathogens ?
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helminth worm
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mosquito
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housefly
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butterfly.
Housefly transmits various diseases like typhoid diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, tuberculosis etc.
A patient suffering from a chronic disease
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has abrupt attack of disease
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suffers from disease for a very long period
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suffers from disease for short period
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all of these.
Chronic diseases last for a long time, even as much as a lifetime. The chronic diseases have drastic long term effects on patient's health.
An insect bite may result in inflammation of that spot.This is triggered by the alarm chemicals such as
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Histamine and dopamine
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Histamine and kinins
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Interferons and opsonins
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Interferons and histones
- Histamine is an organic nitrogenous compound which is involved in the inflammatory response and has a central role as a mediator of itching. Histamine increases the permeability of the capillaries to white blood cells and some proteins at the site of inflammation.
- Kinins are a group of substances formed in body tissue in response to injury or inflammation. They are polypeptides and cause vasodilation (increase blood flow) at the site of inflammation and smooth muscle contraction.
Crippling disease is caused due to poisoning of __________.
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Arsenic
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Lead
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Mercury
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Selenium