COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
By
Ms Sushma Suresh
Ms Mita Wagle
Pawar Public School
Kandivali
PATHOGEN - DISEASE CAUSING GERM
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
VIRAL
BACTERIAL
FUNGAL
PROTOZOAL
WORMS
DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
NASAL
CONGESTION,
RUNNY NOSE,
SORE THROAT,
SNEEZING,
HEADACHE
THROUGH
MOISTURE
DURING
COUGHING AND
SNEEZING
COLD
RHINOVIRUS
INFLUENZA
INFLUENZA
VIRUS
COLD, FEVER,
CHILL
DROPLET
INFECTION
MUMPS
MUMPS VIRUS
SWELLING OF
PAROTID
GLANDS BELOW
THE EARS
HANDKERCHIEF,
UTENSILS OF
PATIENTS
SMALLPOX
VARIOLA VIRUS
BOILS ON BODY
CONTACT,
DISCHARGE OF
BOILS
POLIOMYELITIS
POLIO VIRUS
PARALYSIS OF
LIMBS DUE TO
WEAK MUSCLES
DISCHARGE FROM
NOSE AND THROAT,
BY FECAL MATTER
DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
NASAL
DISCHARGE,
REDNESS OF
EYES,
COUGHING,
MEASLE RASH
CONTACT
MEASLES
PARAMYXOVIRUS
RABIES
RABIES
VIRUS
AFFECTS CNS,
HYDROPHOBIA
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HEPATITIS/
JAUNDICE
HEPATITIS A
VIRUS
YELLOWING OF
SKIN, EYES,
URINE
CONTAMINATED
FOOD AND
WATER
AIDS
HIV
PROLONGED
FEVER, COMMON
INFECTIONS
INFECTED
SYRINGES, SEXUAL
CONTACT, MOTHER
TO CHILD,
INFECTED BLOOD
(Acquired
Immunodeficiency
Syndrome)
(Human
Immunodeficiency
Virus)
RHINOVIRUS
INFLUENZA
VIRUS
MUMPS
VARIOLA
VIRUS
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.
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DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIA
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE 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
TETANUS
CLOSTRIDIUM
TETANI
JAWS GET
LOCKED
UNCLEAN CUTS
WHOOPING
COUGH
BORDETELLA
PERTUSSIS
COUGHING WITH
A PECULIAR
SOUND
MOSTLY IN
CHILDREN
DISCHARGE FROM
THROAT OF
INFECTED PERSON
(PERTUSSIS)
DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIA
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
DISEASE OF
LUNGS
SPUTUM OF THE
PATIENT
TUBERCULOSIS
(TB)
MYCOBACTERIUM
DIPTHERIA
CORNYBACTERIUM
DIPTHERIAE
TETANUS
CLOSTRIDIUM
TETANI
JAWS GET
LOCKED
UNCLEAN CUTS
WHOOPING
COUGH
BORDETELLA
PERTUSSIS
COUGHING WITH
A PECULIAR
SOUND MOSTLY
IN CHILDREN
DISCHARGE FROM
THROAT OF
INFECTED PERSON
PNEUMONIA
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DISEASE OF
LUNGS
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CHOLERA
(INTESTINAL
DISEASE)
VIBRIO
CHOLERAE
VOMITTING,
LOOSE MOTIONS
CONTAMINATED
WATER AND FOOD
(PERTUSSIS)
AFFECTS THE
DIRECT CONTACT
THROAT, MOSTLY
AND DROPLET
IN CHILDREN
INFECTION
DISEASES CAUSED BY MOULDS AND FUNGI
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
RINGWORM
(DISEASE OF
SKIN, HAIR OR
NAILS)
TINEA SPP.
ATHELETE’S
FOOT
SAME AS ABOVE
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
RING-SHAPED
PATCHES ON
THE SKIN
CONTAMINATED
CLOTHES AND
ARTICLES
ATTACKS SKIN
OF FOOT, IN
BETWEEN THE
TOES.
SAME AS ABOVE
DISEASES CAUSED BY PROTOZOA
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
MALARIA
PLASMODIUM
CHILL AND
HIGH FEVER
BITE OF
ANOPHELES
MOSQUITO
AMOEBIASIS
(LARGE
ENTAMOEBA
DIARRHOEA
WITH
GRIPPING
PAIN AND
MUCUS
DISCHARGE;
CONTAMINATED
FOOD BY FLIES
INTESTINE
DISEASE)
(BLOOD OOZES
OUT IN ACUTE
CONDITIONS)
DISEASES CAUSED BY WORMS
DISEASE
CAUSATIVE
AGENT
SYMPTOMS
MODE OF
SPREADING
SWOLLEN LEGS,
SWELLING OF
SCROTUM IN
MALES AND
BREASTS IN
FEMALES
BITE OF
FEMALE
CULEX
MOSQUITO
ELEPHANTIASIS
WUCHERIERIA
BANCROFTI
ASCARIASIS
ASCARIS
ABDOMINAL
SWELLING AND
PAIN, MOSTLY
IN CHILDREN
UNHYGIENIC
CONDITIONS
(NOT WASHING
HANDS, ETC.)
TAENIASIS
TAPEWORM
ABDOMINAL
PAIN,
INDIGESTION
IMPROPERLY
COOKED
PORK/BEEF
(PARASITE LIVES
IN INTESTINE AND
ABSORBS
DIGESTED FOOD)
RINGWORM
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BACK
ELEPHANTIASIS
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