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प्रश्न
Differentiate between the following pair:
Endemic and Pandemic disease.
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उत्तर
| Endemic disease | Pandemic disease |
| This disease is limited to a particular area, in which a small number of cases are always present. | Here, the disease spreads from one country to another until one continent or more is affected. |
| Eq. Yellow fever in certain African countries | E.g, AIDS |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What are deficiency diseases?
Fill in the blank:
Intake of inadequate or excess food or unbalanced diet leads to .................
Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words given below:
Diabetes is caused due to undersecretion of ______.
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 |
Two diseases each caused by bacteria, protozoa and virus.
Fill in the blanks:
The mineral ______ is responsible for tooth decay.
Name the following:
Three mineral-deficiency diseases.
Write, in brief, about the following: Fever
Which of the following statements are true (T) and which ones are false (F)? Mark T or F:
AIDS is caused by a bacterium.
Write short notes on the following:
Communicable diseases
