Bacteria

• Bacteria are single-celled organisms 100x smaller than the cells in our bodies. They reproduce by themselves, but do well inside our bodies due to a good food supply.
• Salmonella

  • Food poisoning
  • Chicken caught disease when it was alive
  • In the UK most chickens are vaccinated
  • Fever
  • Stomach cramps
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Often passes by itself within a week
  • Stay hydrated
• Gonorrhea

  • STD
  • Passed on by sexual contact
  • Pain when urinating
  • Thick yellow or green discharge from vagina or penis
• Gonorrhea

  -Prevention

  • avoiding unsafe sex, barrier methods of contraception

  -Treatment

  • Penicillin, however lots of strains have become resistant, so we have to use rarer and more expensive antibiotics.
• Only a small minority of bacteria cause disease. Lots of bacteria don't affect other organisms at all, while many others are actually helpful.
• Bacteria release small proteins called toxins. These can damage our cells and are responsible for many of the symptoms of bacterial diseases.