Health disease and development of medicine

Question 1

define health

Answer 1

A state of physical and mental well-being

Question 2

define disease

Answer 2

Condition that can cause ill health

Question 3

Define communicable

Answer 3

Transfers from person to person

Question 4

what type of microorganisms are communicable?

Answer 4

Viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi

Question 5

Examples of communicable diseases

Answer 5

Common cold, malaria, and meningitis

Question 6

Define noncommunicable

Answer 6

Can’t spread between people

Question 7

examples of a noncommunicable disease

Answer 7

Asthma, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer

Question 8

in woman, what is the relation between HPV and cancer?

Answer 8

HPV can cause cervical cancer in women

Question 9

how does our body immune system hurt itself?

Answer 9

Sometimes our body can overreact to a pathogen and damage our tissue – which can cause skin rashes or asthma

Question 10

define microorganism

Answer 10

Tiny organisms– bacteria, viruses, protests and fungi

Question 11

define pathogen

Answer 11

Microorganisms that can cause disease

Question 12

how can pathogens spread?

Answer 12

. Air
.Contaminated food and water
.Direct contact.

Question 13

describe how pathogens spread through air

Answer 13

Pathogens such as the influenza virus carried in tiny droplets we released when we cough and sneeze

Question 14

describe how pathogens can spread in contaminated food and water

Answer 14

Cholera is a bacteria which is spread by drinking water contaminated with diarrhoea of someone already with cholera. Other diseases such as salmonella can be spread by eating contaminated food mainly chicken.

Question 15

describe how direct contact can spread pathogens

Answer 15

Athletes foot (a fungi which makes skin on the feet flake off) can be spread by walking barefoot on a contaminated surface such as a swimming pool

Question 16

How can we prevent spreading pathogens?

Answer 16

. washing hands
. cleaning cookery items
. killing organisms that transport pathogens
. vaccination
. isolation or quarantine infected people

Question 17

what is a fungi?

Answer 17

A fungi is a unicellular and multicellular eukaryotic organism

Question 18

describe how multicellular fungi can spread

Answer 18

Multicellular fungi such as mushrooms have hyphae ( long threads) which spread from the body through soil which can penetrate human skin and caused disease. they can also spread spores which can spread the fungi

Question 19

what is a protist

Answer 19

Unicellular and sometimes multicellular eukaryotic organisms

Question 20

Why are fungi classed as parasites?

Answer 20

Because they live in or on another organism

Question 21

how are protists spread?

Answer 21

Transported by vectors (other organisms) which transport the protists between hosts?

Question 22

how is malaria transported?

Answer 22

A mosquito feeds on an animal which contains malaria this mosquito then sucks up these malaria protists And when the mosquito next bites an animal, it transports malaria, and the protists spread to a new host

Question 23

how to prevent the spread of malaria

Answer 23

. Destroy the vectors breeding sites
. kill the mosquito with insectorsides
. use mosquito repellent

Question 24

What is a virus?

Answer 24

An abiotic organism which takes control of animal cells and uses its mechanics to reproduce

Question 25

How is HIV caused?

Answer 25

Through unprotected sex or exchanging of bodily fluids

Question 26

how does HIV lead to AIDS?

Answer 26

HIV can lead your immune system to be very weak and causes immune system to become acceptable to many diseases or cancers (this is called AIDS)