Bacterial Diseases and Preventing Disease

• What are two examples of bacterial diseases?

  • Salmonella
  • Gonorrhoea
• What are the symptoms of salmonella?

  • Fever
  • Stomach cramps
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
• How are the symptoms of salmonella caused?

  By toxins
• How can you contract salmonella?

  Eating contaminated food
• How does food become contaminated with salmonella?


  It caught it while it was alive or it was contaminated while it was being prepared
• How is salmonella treated amongst poultry in the UK?

  Vaccinations are given to them
• How is gonorrhoea transmitted?


  Sexual contact
• What are the symptoms of gonorrhoea?

  • Pain when urinating
  • Thick yellow or green discharge from vagina or penis
• How was gonorrhoea originally treated?


  With penicillin
• Why can penicillin no longer be used to treat gonorrhoea?


  Strains have become resistant to it
• How can the spread of gonorrhoea be prevented?


  Antibiotics or barrier methods of contraception e.g. condoms
• How can you prevent the spread of disease?

  • Being hygienic
  • Destroying vectors
  • Isolating infected individuals
  • Vaccination
• How can you destroy insect vectors?

  Use insecticides or destroy their habitat to prevent breeding