Question

Read the paragraph given below and answer any four questions. W
Diseases can also spread through water. This occurs if the excreta from someone suffering
from infectious gut disease, such as cholera, get mixed with the drinking water used by
people living nearby. The cholera causing microbes will enter new hosts through the water
they drink and cause disease in them. Such diseases are much more likely to spread in the
absence of safe supplies of drinking water.
a) What term is given to the diseases that spread from one person to another?
b) How does cholera spread?
c) Name any disease, which spread through air.
d) Give examples of any two infectious disease other than cholera.
e) State one way to prevent infectious diseases​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Communicable Diseases

2.Cholera occurs because of Contaminated Food and Water

3. Common cold, flu, chicken pox.

4. Typhoid, Plague, Tetanus

5. We should use handkerchief while sneezing or coughing to prevent spread of germs.