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(ii) Malaria
(iii)Kala Azar
(iv) HIV-AIDS
(b) Name 2 diseases against which infants below 1 year of age are vaccinated.
(b) State and explain in brief 4 major factors which are causes of a disease.
(a)
ORGANISM/BACTERIA DISEASE
Leishmania Worm
Staphylococci Kala Azar
Trypanosoma Acne
Ascaris lumbricoides Sleeping Sickness
(b)
I II
Fungal Disease Dengue Fever
Viral Disease Cholera
Protozoan Disease Skin Disease
Bacterial Disease Malaria
Q6. “High Blood pressure can be caused by excessive weight and lack of exercise”.Justify
Q10. Name any one disease caused when the microbes target:
(a) Liver
(b) Lungs
Q11. Why we are normally advised to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick?
Q12. Why are antibiotics effective against bacteria (bacterial disease) but not viruses (viral
disease)?
Q13. State two consequences which one has to face while dealing with an infectious
disease.
Q14. a) Which system of our body is activated in response to infection and how it responds?
OR
b) Why antibiotics cannot be used for its treatment? Justify your answer.
Q18. Ravi suffered from tuberculosis, while Rehman suffered from typhoid. Which disease
caused more damage and why?
Q19. a) If a person is suffering from Jaundice, name the mode of its transmission and the
organ affected by this disease.
c) It has been observed that despite the availability of vaccine for Hepatitis A in the
market, it may not be necessary to give it to children by the time they are 5 years old.
Why?
Q22 (a) Which part of the body is infected by malaria causing microbe?
Q24. a) Mention two factors on which severity of the disease manifestation depends?
b) Once you have been infected with small pox there is no chance of suffering from it
again. Give reasons.
Q26. What are the symptoms shown by a person if (i) lungs get infected (ii) stomach gets
infected (iii) liver gets infected (iv) brain is infected?
Q27. A hefty boy of 12 years often picks fights with others. Do you think he is in good
health? If so, then explain your answer.
Q28. “Prevention of a disease is more desirable than its treatment.” Justify the statement by
discussing 3 major strategies to be adopted for the prevention of infectious disease?
OR
“Prevention is better than cure.” Justify the statement by discussing 3 major strategies to be
adopted for the prevention of infectious disease?
Q29 Why are we normally advised to take balanced and nourishing food when are sick?
Q30 If you visit a friend suffering from malaria, what are the chances of malaria spreading to
you?
Q31. What are infectious diseases? Give 2 examples. Name two infectious agents.
(b) Name 2 viral diseases which can be prevented using vaccines. What is immunity?
Q33. Write the causes, symptoms and preventions of (i) AIDS (ii) Hepatitis (iii) Malaria.
Q34. Name the infectious disease that leads to immunodeficiency. Write the name of
pathogen involved.
Q35. List 3 limitations which a person as to face while suffering from infectious disease.
Q39. In a slum area people are suffering from malaria. Mention the unhygienic conditions
that are prevailing there. Name the causative organism. List various preventive measures.
Q45. Name the organism causing Kala Azar and sleeping sickness.
Q46. ‘In our country a majority of children are already immune to Hepatitis A without
getting vaccine.’ Justify giving 3 reasons.
Q52. On what factors do the severity of disease manifestation depends? Explain with
example.
Q55. Identify the diseases that spread through the following needs. Also name the target
organs: (i) Sexual contact (ii) mosquitoes and (iii) from air via nose.
Q56. Mention the symptoms because of which you will visit a doctor and why?