Question

Shiela was going to market along with her mother. On the way to market, she saw a vendor selling

some food items (chaat, tikkis). Shiela asked her mother if she can have those tikkis and chaats. But

her mother told her that she shouldn’t eat the food items that are uncovered.

(a) Why did Shiela’s mother tell her not to eat uncovered food item from market?

(b) Name the diseases that Shiela may get if she eats uncovered foods.

(c) Name the pathogens which can be transmitted from contaminated food and water.

(d) How do houseflies transmit the pathogen to the uncovered food?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) This food may cause some diseases, this is unhealthy.

b) Typhoid,

c) Tuberculosis

d) Houseflies sit on this uncovered food and transmit the pathogen to this food