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In a slum area, many people are reported to be suffering from malaria. Mention the unhygienic conditions that must be prevailing there. How does a doctor confirm malaria ? List various preventing measures of malaria.

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PRADEEP-HEALTH AND DISEASES-C.Short Answer Questions
  1. Write notes on : (i) Modes of transmission of AIDS (ii) Polio.

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  2. Explain methods of prevention of Malaria.

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  3. Name any three causative organisms which cause diarrhoea.

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  4. List any three preventive measures of AIDS disease.

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  5. Name any three viral diseases prevalent in your area.

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  6. Name any three protozoan diseases.

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  7. Give three important differences between acute and chronic diseases.

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  8. What conditions are essential for good health?

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  9. Descrie the three level causes of diseases.

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  10. In a slum area, many people are reported to be suffering from malaria....

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  11. Why a person suffering from AIDS becomes sick freqently ?

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  12. (a) Name one disease caused by Anopheles, Culex and Aedes spp. of mosq...

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  13. (i) AIDS is a viral disease that spreads by sexual contact. Is there a...

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  14. (a) Name group of diseases that last only for short period of time. ...

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  15. (a) What are antibiotics ? Name the scientist who first discovered ant...

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  16. How does social environment influence our individual health ?

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  17. List any three ways of transmission of AIDS to a healthy person.

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  18. Give symptoms and control of diarrhoea infection.

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  19. List three similaritis and three dissimilarities between AIDS and Infl...

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  20. Identify the following figure A, B and C :

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