Disease Flashcards
(5 cards)
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Know details on three diseases
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In notes
1
Q
Give the names of the most common diseases in Africa. (5)
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Malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, river blindness, guinea worm, leprosy, TB, AIDS, Ebola
2
Q
What is the average life expectancy in Africa?
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51
3
Q
Reasons diseases spread? (3) details
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Susceptible due to poor diet, lack of knowledge of disease prevention, poor sanitation, lack of clean water, very few doctors, lack of hospitals and clinics,lack of medicine
4
Q
What role does lack of knowledge play in disease prevention?
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They would know how to prevent the diseases, in the case of AIDS, they don’t know any better
