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Topic 10 :

Infectious Diseases
1. Make that
infections diseases are caused
by pathogens
and are transmissible


d. share the name and
type of pathogen
Kar causes each
of the following diseases :




cholera → Vibrio cholerae BACTERIUM

Plasmodium Plasmodium
falciparum Pannodiven
Malaria caused
by promises malarial ,

,


ovale and Mannerheim vivax PROTOCh STS
.




Thberuwirns BACTERIUM
Mycobacterium Mycobacterium
→ tuberculosis and bovis



HW/ AIDS
immunodeficiency VIRUS
virus MV
by
→ caused human :




Explain
3. how cholera , malaria TB and HIV/AIDS are transmitted
,




Transmission
of Chhun
bacterium Vibrio cholerae
by
→ caused



→ water-borne and
food-borne

affects areas with limited sanitation



affects people who become in contact with contaminated water /
food

present
in
faeces↳
if contaminates a water
supply
-




intensifies the spread


spreads through poor sanitation


Transmission
of malaria
transmitted inserts

through ↳
female Anopheles mosquitoes

feed on human blood to obtain
protein to

develop 98

pathogen transfer
→ transmitted
through blood
transfusion and unsterile needles



→ can be
transferred to
foetus aims the
placenta

, Transmission
of TB

through droplets from coughing / sneering
inhaled
pathogen





spreads quickly overcrowded conditions
→ in





spread through cattle either
from
contaminated meat or
unparhauised milk




Transmission
of HWIALDS
→ a retrovirus


group of
↳ a diseases with the
ability to make DNA
from RMA because
they have

reverse
transcriptase
transmitted
by
→ nor a vector

↳ unwue malaria




virus is unable to survive

externally

eouhanje of body fluids
transmitted driver

by

ways of transmission
:




↳ sexual intercourse
↳ blood donation

↳ mother to
foetus aims
placenta
↳ mother child breast milk
through

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