Communicable Diseases
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- Created on: 31-03-18 09:52
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- Examples of Communicable Diseases
- Cholera
- Pathogen: bacteria, Vibrio Chloerae
- Symptoms: Diarrhoea
- How it spreads: via contaminated water sources.
- How to prevent transmission: Make sure that you have access to clean water supplies
- Tuberculosis
- Pathogen: bacteria, Myco-bacterium tuberculosis
- Symptoms: coughing and lung damage
- How it spreads: Through the air when an infected individual is coughing.
- How to prevent it: Infected people should avoid crowded public spaces, practise good hygiene and sleep alone. Their homes should be well-ventilated.
- Malaria
- Pathogens: a protist
- Symptoms: Damage to red blood cells and in severe cases, liver
- How it spreads: Mosquitos act as vectors - they pass on the protist to humans but don't get the disease themselves.
- How to prevent it: use mosquito nets and insect repellent to prevent mosquitos biting you
- Stomach Ulcers
- Pathogen: bacterium, Helicobacter Pylori
- Symptoms: stomach pains, nausea and vomiting
- How it spreads: Oral transmission like swallowing contaminated food.
- How to prevent this: Having clean water supplies and good hygienic living conditions.
- Ebola
- Pathogen: Ebola virus
- Symptoms: Haemorrhagic fever (a fever with bleeding)
- How is it spread: by bodily fluids
- How to prevent it: By isolating infected people and sterilising any areas where the virus may be present
- Chalara ash dieback
- Pathogen: a fungus that infects ash trees
- Symptoms: Leaf loss and tree lesions (wounds)
- How to prevent it: Removing young infected ash trees and replanting with different species or restricting the import or movement of ash trees.
- How is it spread: Carried through air by wind or when infected ash trees are moved between areas.
- Cholera
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