Tag: first aid

• A communicable disease is one that is spread from one person to another through a variety of ways that include: contact with blood and bodily fluids; breathing in an airborne virus; or by being bitten by an insect. The most common and serious vaccine-preventable diseases tracked by the World Health Organization (WHO) are diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection, hepatitis B, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, poliomyelitis, rubella, tetanus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Hence, Communicable diseases like whooping cough, measles and polio can be prevented by vaccination. So, the correct answer is 'True'.
  

• The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the civic body that oversees Public Municipal schools; Street lighting; Maintenance of parks and open spaces; Garbage disposal and street and Health & Sanitation. 
• Hence, In India, Municipal corporators are responsible for maintaining the general well being of a particular area.   
• So, the correct answer is 'Municipal corporators'.

• Tobacco use has predominantly negative effects on human health and concern about the health effects of tobacco has a long history.
•  Tobacco also contains nicotine, which is a highly addictive psychoactive drug.
• When tobacco is smoked, nicotine causes physical and psychological dependency. 
• Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart, liver and lungs. Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema, asthma and chronic bronchitis), and several cancers (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, bladder cancer, and pancreatic cancer). It also causes peripheral arterial disease and high blood pressure. Hence, Consumption of tobacco causes COPD, Cancer and Asthma.

• Pulse Polio is an immunisation campaign established by the government of India to eliminate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against the polio virus. 
• The project fights poliomyelitis through a large-scale, pulse vaccination programme and monitoring for polio cases. 
• Tamil Nadu will hold a pulse polio immunisation camp on March 10 as part of a nationwide campaign. In 2019, Tamil Nadu is stepping into the 15th polio-free year. Hence, Pulse Polio is an example of a vaccination program by the government.

• Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases."
•  Personal hygiene refers to maintaining the body's cleanliness.
•  Many people equate hygiene with 'cleanliness,' but hygiene is a broad term. Hygiene includes such personal habit choices as to how frequently to take a shower or bathe, wash hands, trim fingernails, and change and wash clothes.
• Environmental hygiene includes attention to keeping surfaces in the home and workplace, including bathroom facilities, clean and pathogen-free and maintenance of dustbins for garbage. Hence, Keeping the house clean, Throwing garbage in the dustbins and keeping dustbins covered is a part of environmental hygiene. 

Exercise is very important for ones body, daily exercising with a balanced diet helps keep our heart and body strong, fit and healthy. Our circulatory system and all other body systems are also very active thus, chances of stroke decreases, muscles grow strong and heart rate increases.

Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish researcher, is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928.

In 1928, Alexander Fleming was investigating the properties of Staphylococci. One day, he observed that the culture of Staphylococci was contaminated with fungus and that colonies of the culture surrounding the fungus had been destroyed. 
Fleming grew the mold in a pure culture and found that it produce a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria. He identified the mold (fungus) as being from the Penicillium genus and named the substance it released Penicillin. He investigated its positive antibacterial effect on many organisms and noticed that it affected bacteria such as Staphylococci and many other Gram-positive pathogens that cause scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis, diphtheria but not typhoid fever caused by Gram-negative bacteria.