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Disease Symptoms and Effects

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Disease symptoms and effects involve identifying physical and clinical signs of various medical conditions, ranging from infectious diseases to psychological grief. Topics cover diverse health issues such as anthrax, norovirus, sensorineural hearing loss, and environmental illnesses. These questions are essential for medical exams and general science sections.

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Disease Symptoms and Effects Questions

Multiple choice

Which of these is NOT a way to spread disease?

  1. Sleep

  2. Food

  3. Sexual contact

  4. Animals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Sleep is a physiological state of rest and does not involve the transmission of pathogens. Food, sexual contact, and animals are all well-documented modes of disease transmission.

Multiple choice

Which would be a side effect of a high fiber diet ?

  1. Flatulence

  2. Poor stool quality

  3. Increase Urine

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,B Correct answer
Explanation

Increasing dietary fiber can lead to increased fermentation in the large intestine, resulting in flatulence and changes in stool consistency or quality. While fiber increases fecal bulk and moisture, it does not typically cause increased urination, which is more commonly associated with increased water intake or renal issues.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is a symtom of lung disease?

  1. Jaundice

  2. Headache

  3. Breathlessness

  4. Sleeping sickness
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Breathlessness (dyspnea) is a primary symptom of various lung diseases, such as asthma, COPD, or pneumonia. Jaundice is typically related to liver function, and headache is a non-specific symptom.

Multiple choice

Sick building syndrome is link to all the following except

  1. headaches

  2. lung cancer

  3. chronic fatigue

  4. sneezing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sick building syndrome is associated with acute symptoms like headaches, fatigue, and respiratory irritation. Lung cancer is a long-term chronic disease typically associated with specific carcinogens like asbestos or radon, not the general syndrome.

Multiple choice evs contaminated water spreads disease mosquitoes and malaria diseases caused by mosquitoes water borne diseases

The disease caused due to improper sanitation in public place is

  1. Pandemic.

  2. Non-communicable.

  3. Endemic.

  4. None of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • An endemic disease is a disease that exists permanently in a particular region or population. Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of some endemic diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio
  • Hence the disease caused due to improper sanitation in public place is endemic diseases.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Endemic'.
Multiple choice evs contaminated water spreads disease mosquitoes and malaria diseases caused by mosquitoes water borne diseases

Disease caused due to poor sanitation is

  1. Cancer.

  2. Typhoid.

  3. Polio.

  4. Both B and C.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human wastes and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation.
  • Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio because these diseases can be transmitted through the fecal-oral route when food or water is contaminated.
  • Hence Disease caused due to poor sanitation is typhoid and polio.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Both B and C'.
Multiple choice biology world of microbes cancer and aids hiv and aids immunity related disorders and problems

Organ that can be affected by untreated syphilis is

  1. Heart

  2. Brain

  3. Liver

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease, that is caused by a parasite. Untreated Syphilis or tertiary syphilis can affect both heart & brain. Its symptoms vary depending on the organ system affected. 

So, the correct option is 'Both A and B'.

Multiple choice biology human body and organ system blood pressure circulatory system transportation in animal and plants

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
Drowsiness, felt after a heavy lunch, is due to:

  1. increased blood pressure

  2. decreased blood pressure

  3. decreased pulse rate

  4. increased pulse rate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Drowsiness after a heavy lunch is felt due to :

 1. Eating too much-refined carbohydrate induces sugar spikes and crashes, which make us tired.
2. Digestion requires more blood flow to the stomach, hence less blood to the brain, which makes us feel sleepy.
3. Decreased blood pressure termed as postprandial hypotension.

So, the correct option is 'Decreased blood pressure'.