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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Typhoid germs are transmitted by

  1. housefly
  2. tse-tse fly
  3. sand fly
  4. mosquito
  5. cockroach
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the substance which, when injected into our body, protects us against future infection?

  1. Antiseptic
  2. Antibody
  3. Vaccine
  4. Virus
  5. Disinfectant
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Penicillin was discovered by

  1. S.A. Waksman
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. Paul Ehrlich
  4. Domagk
  5. Thomson
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is called 'The Father of Chemotherapy'?

  1. Edward Jenner
  2. S.A. Waksman
  3. Domagk
  4. Sir Henry Dunant
  5. Paul Ehrlich
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Red cross and when?

  1. Sir Robert Marcus, 1887
  2. Thomas Harry, 1954
  3. Alexander Ehrlich, 1906
  4. Sir Henry Dunant, 1864
  5. S.A. Waksman, 1865
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the full form of UNICEF?

  1. United Nations International Children's Educational Fund
  2. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
  3. United Nations Institute for Children's Educational Finance
  4. United Nations International Children and Emergency Fund
  5. United Nations Institute for Children's Emergency Fund
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Name a viral disease that has been totally eradicated through mass immunization.

  1. Small pox
  2. Measles
  3. Chicken pox
  4. Polio
  5. Whooping cough
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Name the vaccine that helps to produce immunity against Polio.

  1. BCG
  2. DPT
  3. Salk's vaccine
  4. Penicillin
  5. Hepatitis B
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a food or waterborne disease?

  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Gastroenteritis
  3. Diarrhoea
  4. Dysentery
  5. Typhoid
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the full form of B.C.G.?

  1. Bacillus Cowpox Guerine
  2. Bacillus Calmette Guinine
  3. Bacillococcus Calmette Guinine
  4. Bacillus Calmette Guerine
  5. Bacillococcus Calmette Guerine
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Health is defined as the state of complete __________, mental and _____________ well-being.

  1. physical, political
  2. physical, social
  3. social, economic
  4. physical, economic
  5. economic, political
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the chemical substances that inhibit the growth of bacteria and are commonly used on the site of infection known as?

  1. Sulphonamides
  2. Antibodies
  3. Antiseptics
  4. Antibiotics
  5. Antigens
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Vaccination is not available against which of the following diseases?

  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Malaria
  3. Smallpox
  4. Poliomyelitis
  5. Diptheria
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is not correct?

  1. Acquired immunity is of active and passive type.
  2. D.D.T. is a disinfectant.
  3. Dettol is an antiseptic.
  4. Roundworms (Ascaris) live in human intestine.
  5. Penicillin obtained from penicillium notation is an antibody.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is caused by tobacco addiction?

  1. Emphysema
  2. Bronchitis
  3. Gastric and duodenal ulcers
  4. All of the above
  5. None of the above
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