Multiple choice

Which of the following is a pair of transmissible diseases?

  1. Malaria and breakbone fever

  2. Scurvy and ringworm

  3. Dengue and Hansen's disease

  4. Malaria and dermatophytosis

  5. Hansen's disease and dermatophytosis
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Explanation

Transmissible diseases are those diseases which are communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Dermatophytosis is a contagious fungal infection caused by mold-like parasites that live on the cells in the outer layer of your skin. Hansen's disease or leprosy is contagious disease caused by a bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, but is not easily transmitted.

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