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What are contagious diseases ? Give one example.

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The diseases which are spread by actual contact between infected person and healthy persons are called contagious diseases. Example - Chicken pox.
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PRADEEP-HEALTH AND DISEASES-Very Short Answer Questions
  1. Name any two general ways of prevention of infectious diseases.

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  2. Name the most common insect that carries causative organisms of choler...

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  3. What are contagious diseases ? Give one example.

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  4. What are pathogens ? Give examples.

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  5. What do you mean by congenital diseases? Give one example.

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  6. Name any two diseases that occur in children due to deficiency of prot...

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  7. Name the scientist who first discovered penicillin antibiotic. Can you...

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  8. What is meant by 'symptoms' of a disease? What do they indicate?

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  9. What do the physcians do on the basis of symptoms ?

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  10. What are first-level causes of the disease ?

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  11. Why is it possible to effectively immunise the patient against rabies ...

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  12. Give atleast two examples of acute diseases in human being.

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  13. What do you mean by congenital diseases? Give one example.

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  14. What is the term used for causative agents of infections diseases ?

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  15. Name atleast two diseases caused by viruses.

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  16. What type of infectious agents cause elephantiasis disease in humans ?

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  17. Name the bacterium that causes peptic ulcers

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  18. What do you mean by acute diseases ?

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  19. Name the disease that occurs due to deficiency of vitamin B(1).

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  20. What is the cause of Grave's disease (exophthalmic goitre) ?

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