This document discusses communicable and infectious diseases. It explains that communicable diseases spread from person to person through germs. The diseases are spread through various means like infected food and water, air, insects, direct contact, and damaged skin. Common examples of diseases mentioned are malaria, dengue, typhoid, influenza, measles, chickenpox, and ringworm. The document contains questions to test the reader's understanding of how different diseases are spread.
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Communicable diseases
1. Diseases
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2. Disease
•Disease is a condition when our body does
not function normally.
•A person suffering from a disease becomes sick
and weak.
•Example- common cold, conjuctivitis,etc.
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4. Communicable or infectious
diseases –
Diseases that spread from one
person to another are known as
communicable diseases which are
caused by very tiny organisms called
germs.
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5. Spread of
infectious diseases
Infected
food and
Water
Through air
Through
insects
Through
direct
contact
Through
damaged skin
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6. Through Infected food and Water –
1. When flies carrying germs sit on our
food, they pass the germs to our food.
2. Impure water also contains germs.
3. Cooking and eating food with dirty hands
infects the food and water.
Disease such as Cholera, Typhoid, Jaundice and
Diarrhoea are spread consuming infected food
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11. 1. I am a type of disease which is
caused by one person to another
person.
2. Give an example of communicable
diseases.
3. Name the carrier for infecting food
and water.
4. Name the disease caused by
infected food and water.
Test your knowledge-
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12. Through air-
Coughing, sneezing or spitting by a person releases
germs into the air.
Diseases such as common cold, influenza, diphtheria and
whooping cough.
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15. 1.The people who are suffering from
________________ cough and spits a lot.
2.Name air borne disease.
3.When _____________people breathes
infected air then germs enters into his
body.
Test your knowledge-
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16. Through insects-
Spread through blood sucking insects like mosquito, fleas or lice.
When the female Anopheles mosquito bites a healthy person then it spreads
malaria.
Dengue also spreads by Aedes mosquitoes.
Plague is spread by rats , fleas.
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19. 1.I am the female mosquito and the
carrier of Malaria.
2.Name the disease which is spread by
rats.
3.Name the disease caused by Aedes
mosquito.
4.Name the disease caused by Culex
mosquito.
Test your knowledge-
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20. Through direct contacts-
Clothing and other articles used by a sick
person carry germs.
Chicken pox, measles, ringworm, whooping cough and common cold
are spread through direct contact.
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23. Test your knowledge-
1.Name the disease caused through
damaged skin.
2.____________enters in the body
through cut or wound.
3.Name the disease which is
caused through direct contact.
4.Name the disease which is
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