Bacterial disease

• Bacterial diseases:

  • Salmonella
  • Gonorrhea
• salmonella is a bacterial disease that is caused by food poisoning, eating uncooked or contaminated foods can cause you to get very ill = vomiting and diarrhea
• Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial disease that causes pain when urinating and green or yellow discharge from the vagina or penis. It can be cured with antibiotics or use of penicillin and condoms
• give 2 ways a person with salmonella could prevent the spread of the disease?

  dont share cutlery

  wash hands after being sick
• how can farmers prevent the spread of salmonella from chickens to humans?

  give chickens antibiotics

  kill chickens
• how can scientist tell if results are repeatable?

  repeat them and see if results are similar
• Gonorrhea is caused by a bacterium and was easily treated with the antibiotic penicillin until many resistant strains appeared.
• how are measles spread?

  inhaling droplets from cough or sneeze
• what is the difference between a virus and bacteria?

  virus can only reproduce inside host cell

  viruses cannot be killed with antibiotics but bacteria can
• why are antibiotics becoming less effective?

  Antibiotic resistance
• how do antibiotics work?

  kill bacteria and prevent from growing
• potential sources of salmonella

  poultry

  raw meat

  eggs
• what causes symptoms of salmonella?

  toxins
• how does the uk reduce the number of salmonella food poisoning cases?

  all uk poultry is vaccinated