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BHARATI BHAWAN (ENGLISH)-HEALTH AND DISEASE -Short Answer Questions
  1. How can biological agents check the growth of mosquitoes?

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  2. How is hepatitis controlled?

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  3. which microorganisms cause TB and influenza? How do these diseases spe...

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  4. Why is it difficult to kae vaccines for influenza?

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  5. How is HIV transmitted?

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  6. What measures would you take to avoid the recurrence of a disease you ...

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  7. can you give reasons why a health worker or a nurse does not fall sick...

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  8. What are the three most common disease that the people in your localit...

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  9. If there were certain diseases common in your area, what preventive ma...

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  10. If a baby falls sick, how would know that he is indeed sick and come t...

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  12. why is it that one often suffers fro indigestion during examination ti...

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  13. why are you more kikly to suffer from an infectin when you trvel by a ...

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  14. Even after being vaccinated would you be afraid to visit a friend who ...

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  15. Would you avoid meeting your friend's father who is found to be HIV po...

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  16. What kind of immunization would you recommend to your neighbour who ha...

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  17. A hefty boy of 12 year often picks fights with others. Do you think h...

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  18. Define antibiotics and explain how it is able to check bacterial growt...

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  19. Differentiate between immediate and contributory causes.

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  20. Differentiate between a vector and an infectious agent.

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