COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

By Ms Sushma SureshMs Mita WaglePawar Public School Kandivali

PATHOGEN - DISEASE CAUSING GERM

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

VIRAL BACTERIAL FUNGAL PROTOZOAL WORMS

DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSESDISEASE CAUSATIVE

AGENTSYMPTOMS MODE OF

SPREADING

COLD RHINOVIRUSNASAL

CONGESTION,RUNNY NOSE,SORE THROAT,

SNEEZING, HEADACHE

THROUGH MOISTURE DURING

COUGHING AND SNEEZING

INFLUENZA INFLUENZA VIRUS COLD, FEVER, CHILL

DROPLET INFECTION

MUMPS MUMPS VIRUS SWELLING OF PAROTID GLANDS BELOW THE EARS

HANDKERCHIEF, UTENSILS OF

PATIENTS

SMALLPOX VARIOLA VIRUS BOILS ON BODY CONTACT, DISCHARGE OF

BOILS

POLIOMYELITIS POLIO VIRUS PARALYSIS OF LIMBS DUE TO WEAK

MUSCLES

DISCHARGE FROM NOSE AND THROAT, BY FECAL MATTER

DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSESDISEASE CAUSATIVE

AGENTSYMPTOMS MODE OF

SPREADING

MEASLES  PARAMYXOVIRUSNASAL

DISCHARGE,REDNESS OF

EYES, COUGHING, MEASLE RASH

CONTACT

RABIES RABIES VIRUS

AFFECTS CNS, HYDROPHOBIA

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HEPATITIS/ JAUNDICE

HEPATITIS A VIRUS

YELLOWING OF SKIN, EYES,

URINE

CONTAMINATED FOOD AND

WATER

AIDS (Acquired

Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

PROLONGED FEVER, COMMON

INFECTIONS

INFECTED SYRINGES, SEXUAL CONTACT, MOTHER

TO CHILD, INFECTED BLOOD

RHINOVIRUS

INFLUENZA VIRUS

VARIOLA VIRUS

MUMPS

Polio Eradication Campaign in India: According to

India no longer a polio-endemic countryIndia completes two years without any case of polio on 13 January 2013, an unprecedented progress for a country, which in 2009 accounted for nearly half the world’s polio cases.

DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIADISEASE CAUSATIVE

AGENTSYMPTOMS MODE OF

SPREADING

TUBERCULOSIS (TB)

 MYCOBACTERIUMDISEASE OF

LUNGSSPUTUM OF THE

PATIENT

DIPTHERIA CORNYBACTERIUMDIPTHERIAE

AFFECTS THE THROAT, MOSTLY

IN CHILDREN

DIRECT CONTACT AND DROPLET

INFECTION

TETANUS CLOSTRIDIUMTETANI

JAWS GET LOCKED

UNCLEAN CUTS

WHOOPING COUGH

(PERTUSSIS)

BORDETELLAPERTUSSIS

COUGHING WITH A PECULIAR

SOUNDMOSTLY IN CHILDREN

DISCHARGE FROM THROAT OF

INFECTED PERSON

DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIADISEASE CAUSATIVE

AGENTSYMPTOMS MODE OF

SPREADING

TUBERCULOSIS (TB)

 MYCOBACTERIUMDISEASE OF

LUNGSSPUTUM OF THE

PATIENT

DIPTHERIA CORNYBACTERIUMDIPTHERIAE

AFFECTS THE THROAT, MOSTLY

IN CHILDREN

DIRECT CONTACT AND DROPLET

INFECTION

TETANUS CLOSTRIDIUMTETANI

JAWS GET LOCKED

UNCLEAN CUTS

WHOOPING COUGH

(PERTUSSIS)

BORDETELLAPERTUSSIS

COUGHING WITH A PECULIAR SOUND MOSTLY IN CHILDREN

DISCHARGE FROM THROAT OF

INFECTED PERSON

PNEUMONIA ---- DISEASE OF LUNGS

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CHOLERA(INTESTINAL

DISEASE)

VIBRIOCHOLERAE

VOMITTING, LOOSE MOTIONS

CONTAMINATED WATER AND FOOD

DISEASES CAUSED BY MOULDS AND FUNGI

DISEASE CAUSATIVE AGENT

SYMPTOMS MODE OF SPREADING

RINGWORM(DISEASE OF

SKIN, HAIR OR NAILS)

 TINEA SPP.RING-SHAPED

PATCHES ON THE SKIN

CONTAMINATED CLOTHES AND

ARTICLES

ATHELETE’S FOOT

SAME AS ABOVE ATTACKS SKIN OF FOOT, IN

BETWEEN THE TOES.

SAME AS ABOVE

FUNGI ENTER THE BODY IN THE FORM OF SPORES

THROUGH THE SKIN, MOUTH AND NOSE

DISEASES CAUSED BY PROTOZOA

DISEASE CAUSATIVE AGENT

SYMPTOMS MODE OF SPREADING

MALARIA  PLASMODIUM CHILL AND HIGH FEVER

BITE OF ANOPHELES MOSQUITO

AMOEBIASIS(LARGE

INTESTINE DISEASE)

ENTAMOEBA DIARRHOEA WITH

GRIPPING PAIN AND MUCUS DISCHARGE;

(BLOOD OOZES OUT IN ACUTE CONDITIONS)

CONTAMINATED FOOD BY FLIES

DISEASES CAUSED BY WORMSDISEASE CAUSATIVE

AGENTSYMPTOMS MODE OF

SPREADING

ELEPHANTIASIS  WUCHERIERIA BANCROFTI

SWOLLEN LEGS,SWELLING OF SCROTUM IN MALES AND BREASTS IN

FEMALES

BITE OF FEMALE CULEX

MOSQUITO

ASCARIASIS(PARASITE LIVES IN

INTESTINE AND ABSORBS

DIGESTED FOOD)

ASCARIS ABDOMINAL SWELLING AND PAIN, MOSTLY IN

CHILDREN

UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS

(NOT WASHING HANDS, ETC.)

TAENIASIS TAPEWORM ABDOMINAL PAIN,

INDIGESTION

IMPROPERLY COOKED

PORK/BEEF

RINGWORM

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