Human Health And Disease Question 40
Question: The diseases mumps, cholera and TB are the type of____.
Options:
A) Bacterial diseases
B) Endemic diseases
C) Viral diseases
D) Communicable diseases
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Answer:
Correct Answer: D
Solution:
Communicable diseases may be classified by a variety of methods: by clinical syndrome, mode of transmission, methods of prevention (example, vaccine preventable), or by major organism classification, that is, viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic disease.
Cholera is a bacterial infection caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with Vibrio cholera.
Mumps is a viral disease caused by the mumps virus. Tuberculosis is caused by bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
So, all the given diseases are communicable diseases as they spread from an infected person to a healthy person.
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