WHY DO WE FALL ILL?
Extra Questions: Answers are to be written in Note book
Concepts questions/Short answer questions
(1)State two principles of treatment of a disease?
(2)Name the causative agent for (i) Typhoid and (ii) Malaria?
(3)Write three precautions you can take in your school to reduce the incidence of
infectious diseases?
(4)Differentiate between congenital disease and acquired disease?
(5)“When we think about health, we think about community but when we think about
disease, we think about individual sufferer”. Do you agree? Comment with two
example?
(6)Why social harmony and good economic conditions are necessary for good health?
(7)Give the ways by which microbial agents can commonly move from an infected
person to someone else for the following disease:
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(8)An active immune system forms many cells to the affected tissue to kill off the
disease causing microbes. Identify the process and mention its local and general
effects?
(9)Name the system which is responsible for fighting on incoming pathogen?
(10)What are the different means by which infectious diseases are spread?
(11)Which disease cause more effects on general health- acute or chronic?
(12)Common cold spread faster and is difficult to control. Give reason?
(13)What is AIDS? What are the common methods of transmission of AIDS? AIDS
patient should not be demeaned in the society. State reason?
(14)You have suffered from chicken pox, when you were in class three. Why will you not
suffer from it again?
(15)Many vaccines form the public health programme of childhood immunization for
preventing infectious disease. Name any two such diseases?
(16)What is immunization?
(17)Write the causative agents of following:
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(18)What causes Japanese encephalitis? How it can be prevented?
(19)Tabulate three differences between acute and chronic diseases?
(20)What are the various ways to prevent the disease?
(21)“Antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases”. Justify this statement?
(22)What type of disease can be prevented through vaccination?