Question

Which of the following can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person?

High blood pressure

Genetic abnormalities

Sneezing

Blood cancer

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Answer 1

(3) Sneezing can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person.

Infectious Diseases:

Diseases like influenza, cold & cough, etc transmit from one person to another via infection like droplet infection or using objects that were used by infected persons.

• High Blood Pressure: Hypertension or High blood pressure is a condition where the pressure against walls of blood vessels is high enough to harm them. It is a lifestyle or genetic disorder.
• Genetic abnormalities: Abnormalities like Klinefelter syndrome, Down's syndrome, etc are caused due to aberration in chromosomes.
• Sneezing: Sneezing is a factor that comes along with cold/influenza. It can be transmitted to a healthy person by contact.
• Blood cancer: Blood cancer is a sort of genetic disorder wherein abnormal blood cells keep increasing in number exponentially.

Answer 2

Sneezing can make us ill if we come in contact with an infected person.

• Sneezing spread different types of bacteria and viruses.
• These bacteria and viruses get mixed with air.
• When we breathe we inhale these bacteria and viruses through the air.
• These microorganisms can be pathogenic or disease-causing, we get infected with these microbes and hence we can become ill.
• These bacteria and viruses are carried away to other places spreading diseases.
• A person having high blood pressure can not give high blood pressure to other persons.
• Genetic abnormalities are caused due to genetics. defects that are transferred to a child through their parents.
• Blood Cancer is not contagious.