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Question
Multiple choice questions. Tick (✓) the correct choice:
Deficiency of vitamin C causes
Options
scurvy
beri-beri
rickets
skin diseases
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Solution
scurvy
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Write very briefly about the following:
Hepatitis A
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 is a disease caused by bacteria?
Multiple choice questions. Tick (✓) the correct choice:
Which of the following is not a viral disease?
Fill in the blank:
One of the diseases caused by protozoa is ______.
Define the following:
Malnutrition
Mention the food constituents which may be lacking in one’s diet, in case of the following:
A child suffering from kwashiorkor.
Define the following: Immunisation
Kwashiorkor is a ______ deficiency disease.
Pneumonia is an example of ______ disease.
