How Communicable Diseases Spread
Most common and easy way diseases spread
Physical contact
Something you should do after getting home or before touching your face and eating
Washing your hands
Define pathogen
One thing you should do before touching others' face
Wash your hands
What should you be doing right now?
Two of the three ways diseases can spread indirectly
- Vectors (bugs and insects such as mosquitoes)
- Contaminated objects
- Contaminated food or water
The most common and dangerous vector you should protect yourself from
Mosquitoes
Explain how infection happens
When your body did not fight off the pathogen fast enough
Something you wear to cover your coughs
Masks
List two things you may need before going out in public
- Mask
- Gloves
- Hand sanitizer
- Disinfecting wipes/spray
Explain how pathogens get released into the air
Coughing
Ways you can encounter diseases through food
If you're sharing food with someone who is carrying a disease or the food is contaminated by the person making it or being touched
What causes flu or cold?
A bacteria
Explain why abstinence is necessary when you are sick
The virus may be spread through sexual contact
List three symptoms of Coronavirus
- Dry coughs
- Nasal congestion
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Diarrhea
- Runny nose
- Pains and aches
Explain airborne transmission
It is when pathogens are floating in the air so that the disease can spread by inhaling
Something you can do everyday to protect yourself against all diseases
By staying healthy and eating right; it will improve your immune system as well as keep you fit
Two most common types of pathogens
Bacteria and viruses
Tissues
Describe how the virus causes death
Once it gets inside your body, it will multiply itself and attack the immune system. Continuously attacking new cells, it will travel down to your lungs, which will soon fill up with fluids and lead to death.
List 4 of the 7 ways diseases can spread directly
- Touching
- Biting
- Kissing
- Sexual contact
- Infected animal
- Childbirth
- Puncture wounds
List one other way you can protect yourself excluding:
- Not eating contaminated/shared food
- Staying healthy
- Washing your hands properly
- Vectors
- Sexual contact
- Drugs such as tobacco or alcohol
- Wearing masks (airborne transmission)
Describe what a virus does after it has gotten into your body
It penetrates a cell and starts multiplying to take over other cells
List five different ways you could protect others when you're sick
- Staying home
- Always covering your coughs or sneezes
- Wearing masks
- Washing your hands
- Not touching others
- Not sharing food
- Not touching a shared item
- etc...
Ex) I can never know if the person next to me or the person next to me has encountered someone with a virus so the chances of me being infected are increased, and I may infect someone with a compromised immune system.