Question

9th Grade, Biology

1) What are pathogens?

2) Name two disease spread by bacteria and fungi each.

3) What are acute disease?

4) Why sick person advised to take rest

5) Name two AIR bone disease

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Answer 1

Answer:

1.)a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

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Bacterial infections and diseases are caused by bacteria. Examples of bacterial diseases are - Cholera, Pneumonia, Tetanus, Typhoid, etc. ... Another fungal infection is - Aspergillosis, caused by Aspergillus fungus, which is a type of common mold.

3.)In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotes that it is of short duration and, as a corollary of that, of recent onset.

4.) When a person is sick, the body is stressed out and is fighting against the sickness. ... When we work or do any activity, the pressure on the body gets increased leading to even bad condition. Thus, we are told to rest so that we can relax ourselves, and avoid other pressures on body.

5.)Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. ...

Mumps is another very contagious viral disease. ...

Measles is a very contagious disease, particularly in crowded conditions.

TB, also known as consumption, is an airborne disease.

Answer 2

Explanation:

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1. Pathogens are the small microbes which act as a mode of transmission of any particular disease. For Example - Mosquitoes act as Pathogens and cause diseases like Malaria.
2. Bacteria - Cholera and Tuberculosis and TB , Fungi causes skin diseases and rings in the skin. However, medicines are readily available to treat such diseases in market.
3. Acute diseases are those diseases which last for a very short term and can be treated very quickly. Example Common Cold. || Chronic Diseases are those diseases which can last life long and is very difficult to cure. Example HIV AIDS.
4. Sick persons are advised to take rest with some medications so that effect of the medicines can take place easily which helps to kill the bad microbes in our body.
5. Air borne diseases are Cold and Cough and Chickenpox ( Coronavirus is also air borne, although the vaccine is under development , so it is better not to mention it.) Some other mediums are also there for example Pneumonia and Cholera spread through water, for example if we drink unhygienic water. These come under the category of communicable diseases which means which can spread through a medium. Some diseases do not transmit at all. These are called Non Communicable diseases. These diseases can build up inside a body. For Example- Legendary Mathematician Ramanujan died because an Amoeba had eaten up his liver $.$