communicable diseases

• how is measles spread?

  inhalation of droplets produced by infected people when sneezing and coughing
• how is HIV spread?

  bodily fluids and cuts or using shared needles or unprotected sex
• how is TMV spread?


  contact of plants, naturally or hands of farmers
• what are the symptoms of measles?

  fever, skin rash, sneezing and loss of appetite
• what are the symptoms of HIV?


  they are different for everyone but mainly: fever, sore throat, rash, tiredness, weight loss and also can be mild- like flu symptoms
• what are the symptoms of TMV?

  Mosaic patterns on leaves and chloroplasts change colour from green to yellow or white and it can make leaves crinkle.
• what is the definition of a communicable disease?

  An infectious disease that can be transmitted from person to person.
• what is the definition of a non- communicable disease?

  A disease that is not contagious
• what are the symptoms for gonorrhea?

  Painful urination, abnormal discharge
• what are the symptoms of malaria?

  Fever, chills, headache, fatigue, and muscle aches and vomiting and diarrhoea
• what type of pathogen causes measles?

  Virus
• what type of pathogen causes aids?

  it's a virus named HIV
• what type of pathogen causes TMV?

  Virus
• what type of pathogen causes salmonella?

  Bacteria
• what type of pathogen causes gonorrhea?

  Bacteria
• what type of pathogen causes rose black spot?

  Fungus
• what type of pathogen causes malaria?

  protist
• how is gonorrhoea spread?

  Sexual contact, (sexually transmitted disease)
• how is rose black spot spread?

  transmitted in air or water and contact by gardeners
• how is malaria spread?

  mosquitoes suck blood from an infected person who has protists in their blood. They pass the protist to other people
• what is the treatment for measles?

  drink lots of fluids, take paracetamol for fever and vitamin A supplementation
• what is the treatment for aids?

  Antiretroviral therapy or antiviral drugs (no current cure )
• what is the treatment for TMV?

  no proper treatment but farmers try to reduce the infection
• what is the treatment for salmonella?

  Antibiotics and drink lots of water
• what is the treatment for gonorrhea?

  Antibiotics
• what is the treatment for rose black spot?

  Fungicide and removing infected leaves.
• what is the treatment for malaria?

  can only be prevented by stopping individuals from being bitten and this can be done by sleeping under a mosquito net and wearing insect repellent. Antimalarial drugs can be taken
• what are the symptoms for rose black spot?

  black or purple spots on leaves. The rest of the leaves turn yellow and can drop off