Disease and Communicable Diseases
Physical & Health Education · 50 practice questions
Meaning and causes of disease; definition and classification of communicable diseases - air-borne/respiratory diseases (measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, cerebrospinal meningitis), water/food-borne diseases (dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever), insect-borne diseases (malaria, yellow fever, trypanosomiasis), worm infections (roundworm, hookworm, guinea worm), animal-borne diseases (rabies, leptospirosis) and contact diseases (gonorrhoea, syphilis, ringworm, leprosy, AIDS); prevention and control measures (immunization, sterilization, isolation).
- Define disease and state its causes.
- Define communicable disease and state its classification with examples.
- Highlight the prevention and control measures of communicable diseases.
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- Practice question 1
Quarantine, a disease control measure, specifically involves restricting the movement of individuals who
- A.have definitely never been exposed to any disease whatsoever
- B.may have been exposed to a disease
- C.have already fully recovered from a disease, with no remaining risk at all
- D.a factor entirely unrelated to exposure to any disease
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B. may have been exposed to a disease
Quarantine specifically involves restricting the movement of individuals who may have been exposed to a disease.
- Practice question 2
Tuberculosis, an air-borne communicable disease, specifically primarily affects
- A.the kidneys and spreads through contaminated water
- B.the skin and spreads through direct physical contact alone
- C.a factor entirely unrelated to the respiratory system
- D.the lungs and spreads through respiratory droplets
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D. the lungs and spreads through respiratory droplets
Tuberculosis is specifically an air-borne disease that primarily affects the lungs and spreads via respiratory droplets.
- Practice question 3
A pathogen specifically refers to a disease-causing microorganism, such as
- A.a vitamin or mineral, rather than any disease-causing microorganism
- B.a bacterium, virus, or fungus
- C.a red or white blood cell, rather than any disease-causing microorganism
- D.a factor entirely unrelated to disease-causing microorganisms of any kind
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B. a bacterium, virus, or fungus
A pathogen is specifically defined as a disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus.
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