1. C OMMUNICABLE DISEASES By Ms Sushma Suresh Ms Mita Wagle Pawar Public School Kandivali

2. PATHOGEN - DISEASE CAUSING GERM COMMUNICABLE DISEASES VIRAL BACTERIAL FUNGAL PROTOZOAL WORMS

3. DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING COLDRHINOVIRUS NASAL CONGESTION, RUNNY NOSE, SORE THROAT, SNEEZING, HEADACHE THROUGH MOISTURE DURING COUGHING AND SNEEZING INFLUENZA VIRUS COLD, FEVER, CHILL DROPLET INFECTION MUMPSMUMPS VIRUSSWELLING OF PAROTID GLANDS BELOW THE EARS HANDKERCHIEF, UTENSILS OF PATIENTS SMALLPOXVARIOLA VIRUSBOILS ON BODYCONTACT, DISCHARGE OF BOILS POLIOMYELITISPOLIO VIRUS PARALYSIS OF LIMBS DUE TO WEAK MUSCLES DISCHARGE FROM NOSE AND THROAT, BY FECAL MATTER

4. DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING MEASLES PARAMYXOVIRUS NASAL DISCHARGE, REDNESS OF EYES, COUGHING, MEASLE RASH CONTACT RABIES VIRUS AFFECTS CNS, HYDROPHOBIA --- HEPATITIS/ JAUNDICE HEPATITIS A VIRUS YELLOWING OF SKIN, EYES, URINE CONTAMINATED FOOD AND WATER AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) PROLONGED FEVER, COMMON INFECTIONS INFECTED SYRINGES, SEXUAL CONTACT, MOTHER TO CHILD, INFECTED BLOOD

5. RHINOVIRUS INFLUENZA VIRUS

6. VARIOLA VIRUS MUMPS

8. Polio Eradication Campaign in India: According to India no longer a polio-endemic country India completes two years without any case of polio on 13 January 2013, an unprecedented progress for a country, which in 2009 accounted for nearly half the world’s polio cases.

12. DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIA DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING TUBERCULOSIS (TB) MYCOBACTERIUM DISEASE OF LUNGS SPUTUM OF THE PATIENT DIPTHERIA CORNYBACTERIUM DIPTHERIAE AFFECTS THE THROAT, MOSTLY IN CHILDREN DIRECT CONTACT AND DROPLET INFECTION TETANUSCLOSTRIDIUM TETANI JAWS GET LOCKED UNCLEAN CUTS WHOOPING COUGH (PERTUSSIS) BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS COUGHING WITH A PECULIAR SOUND MOSTLY IN CHILDREN DISCHARGE FROM THROAT OF INFECTED PERSON

13. DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIA DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING TUBERCULOSIS (TB) MYCOBACTERIUM DISEASE OF LUNGS SPUTUM OF THE PATIENT DIPTHERIA CORNYBACTERIUM DIPTHERIAE AFFECTS THE THROAT, MOSTLY IN CHILDREN DIRECT CONTACT AND DROPLET INFECTION TETANUSCLOSTRIDIUM TETANI JAWS GET LOCKED UNCLEAN CUTS WHOOPING COUGH (PERTUSSIS) BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS COUGHING WITH A PECULIAR SOUND MOSTLY IN CHILDREN DISCHARGE FROM THROAT OF INFECTED PERSON PNEUMONIA----DISEASE OF LUNGS ---- CHOLERA (INTESTINAL DISEASE) VIBRIO CHOLERAE VOMITTING, LOOSE MOTIONS CONTAMINATED WATER AND FOOD

14. DISEASES CAUSED BY MOULDS AND FUNGI DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING RINGWORM (DISEASE OF SKIN, HAIR OR NAILS) TINEA SPP. RING-SHAPED PATCHES ON THE SKIN CONTAMINATED CLOTHES AND ARTICLES ATHELETE’S FOOT SAME AS ABOVE ATTACKS SKIN OF FOOT, IN BETWEEN THE TOES. SAME AS ABOVE

15. DISEASES CAUSED BY PROTOZOA DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING MALARIA PLASMODIUM CHILL AND HIGH FEVER BITE OF ANOPHELES MOSQUITO AMOEBIASIS ( LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE ) ENTAMOEBA DIARRHOEA WITH GRIPPING PAIN AND MUCUS DISCHARGE; (BLOOD OOZES OUT IN ACUTE CONDITIONS ) CONTAMINATED FOOD BY FLIES

16. DISEASES CAUSED BY WORMS DISEASECAUSATIVE AGENT SYMPTOMSMODE OF SPREADING ELEPHANTIASIS WUCHERIERIA BANCROFTI SWOLLEN LEGS, SWELLING OF SCROTUM IN MALES AND BREASTS IN FEMALES BITE OF FEMALE CULEX MOSQUITO ASCARIASIS (PARASITE LIVES IN INTESTINE AND ABSORBS DIGESTED FOOD) ASCARIS ABDOMINAL SWELLING AND PAIN, MOSTLY IN CHILDREN UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS (NOT WASHING HANDS, ETC.) TAENIASISTAPEWORMABDOMINAL PAIN, INDIGESTION IMPROPERLY COOKED PORK/BEEF

17. RINGWORM BACK

19. ELEPHANTIASIS BACK