Multiple choice

Which of the following diseases can be transmitted by contact with an infected person?

  1. Variola vera
  2. Pair of leather scrolls
  3. Flu
  4. Rabies
  5. Infantile remittent fever

  1. 1, 2 and 3

  2. 1, 3 and 5

  3. 2, 3 and 4

  4. 3, 4 and 5

  5. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
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Explanation

Variola vera is a highly contagious disease. People get infected with smallpox virus by inhaling droplets of saliva, which are full of virus, during face-to-face contact with an infected person. Diphtheria (pair of leather scrolls) is spread (transmitted) from person to person, usually through respiratory droplets, from coughing or sneezing. Influenza viruses are spread mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk.

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