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प्रश्न
Define the following: Immunisation
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उत्तर
Immunisation is body’s natural defence mechanism which acts by producing antibodies against the antigens infecting the body.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The expanded form of AIDS is
Put a tick mark (✓) against the correct alternative in the following statement:
Malaria is caused by:
Given below is a crossword puzzle. Read the clues across and clues down, and fill up the blank squares. Check up your performance with the correct solution given at the end.
Clues across
1. Category of pathogen that causes diseases, like common cold and mumps.
5. This is the vaccine for preventing tuberculosis.
6. An organ usually affected by tuberculosis
7. Jumbled spelling of one of the most common insect which visits our exposed foods and contaminates them.
8. Cover this part of your body by a handkerchief while sneezing to prevent droplet infection to others.
9. These may readily grow in your hair, if you do not wash it regularly.
10. A disease that weakens body’s defence system against infections.
Clues down
1. Germ or germ-substance introduced into the body to prevent occurrence of an infectious disease.
2. A disease caused by an infected dog, and which affects the central nervous system.
3. A disease in which the eyes, the skin and the urine turn yellow.
4. The disease pertussis is popularly known as whooping
| 1 V | 2 | U | 3 | 4 | |||
| A | O | ||||||
| 5 B | U | ||||||
| 6 L | G | ||||||
| 7 I | S | F | H | ||||
| 8 | S | I | |||||
| E | 9 | I | C | ||||
| 10 A | D | E |
Multiple choice questions. Tick (✓) the correct choice:
Which of the following diseases is spread through infected rats?
Mention the causal organisms of the following disease: Cholera
Write short notes on the following:
Communicable diseases
What is an infectious disease?
Match the following:
| 1. | Vitamin – A | a. | Cholera |
| 2. | Vitamin – B | b. | Marasmus |
| 3. | Vitamin – C | c. | Colour blindness |
| 4. | Vitamin – D | d. | Bacterial diseases |
| 5. | Vitamin – E | e. | Diabetes |
Who discovered ‘vaccine’ for the first time? Name two diseases that can be prevented by using vaccines
Match the causative organisms with their diseases.
| Column I | Column II | Column III |
|
A. Haemophilus influenza |
1. Malignant malaria | l. Widal test |
| B. Entamoeba histolytica | 2. Elephantiasis | m. Blood test |
| C. Plasmodium falciparum | 3. Pneumonia | n. Stool test |
| D. Wuchereria bancrofti | 4. Typhoid | o. X-ray |
| E. Salmonella typhi | 5. Amoebiasis | p. Peripheral blood test |
