Communicable Diseases

Bacteria:

• 1) Bacteria are very small cells and can reproduce rapidly in your body.
• 2) They can make you fell ill by producing toxins that damage your cells and tissues.

Viruses:

• 1) They are not cells and, like bacteria, can reproduce rapidly in your body.
• 2) They live inside your cells and replicate themselves using the cells' machinery to do so.
• 3) The cell will usually then burst releasing all the new viruses.
• 4) This cell damage is what causes you to feel ill.

Fungi:

• 1) Some fungi are single-celled.
• 2) Others have a body which is made up of hyphae (thread-like structures)
• 3) These hyphae can grow and penetrate human skin and the surface of plants, causing diseases.

Gonorrhoea:

• 1) It is a sexually transmitted disease and STIs are passed on by sexual contact.
• 2) Gonorrohoea is caused by bacteria.
• SYMPTOMS:
  • A person with gonorrhoea will get pain when they urinate. 
  • Another symptom is a thick yellow or green discharge from the vagina or penis.
• TREATMENTS:
  • It was originally treated with an antibiotic called penicillin, but this has become trickier now because of the strains of the bateria have become resistant to it.
• PREVENTIONS:
  • To prevent the spread of gonorrhoea, people can be treated with antibiotics and should use barrier methods of contraception, such as condoms.