Infectious Diseases
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- Created on: 13-03-14 20:25
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- Infectious Diseases
- Water
- Some pathogens can be picked up by drinking
- Or bathing in dirty water.
- E.G, Cholera is a bacterial infection.
- Causes diarrhoea and dehydration.
- Spread when drinking water is contaminated with diarrhoea.
- Some pathogens can be picked up by drinking
- Food
- Picked up by contaminated food.
- E.G, Salmonella
- Causes food poisoning.
- Found in food that has been kept too long, not cooked.
- Air
- Carried in the air in droplets.
- When you sneeze or cough.
- E.G, Influenza virus.
- causes flu.
- Carried in the air in droplets.
- Contact
- Pucked up by touching contaminated surfaces/
- E.G,athlete's foot is a fungus.
- makes skin itch and flake off.
- Spready by touching the same things as an infected person, showe floors.
- Body Fluids
- Spread by body fluids such as blood, breast milk and semen.
- HIV virus.
- Causes AIDS which stops the immune system from working properly.
- Sharing needles to inject blood.
- HIV virus.
- Spread by body fluids such as blood, breast milk and semen.
- Animal Vectors
- Vectors are animals that spread disease.
- Anopheles Mosquito
- Carries the protozoan that causes Malaria.
- Spreads by biting other organisms.
- House Fly
- Carries the bacterium that causes severe diarrhoea.
- carries bacteria onto food.
- Water
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