WebQuests: Infectious and Non-infectious Disease
Disease
Causative
Organism
Symptoms
Treatment
Common
Cold
primarily
caused by
rhinoviruses
and
coronaviruses
symptoms Take aspirin,
often
rest, take
include
decongestants
runny nose,
cough, sore
throat and
fever
Influenza
(Flu)
Submicroscopic
infectious
organisms.
Fever,
headache,
cough,
weakness,
aches and
pains, sore
throat
Strep
Throat
Prevention
Someone
comes in
contact with
you who has a
cold
Wash
hands, stay
away from
sick people
Take the
Bodily contact,
proper
being around
medication and someone with
get rest
the flu
Get
vaccinated,
wash your
hands, stay
away from
sick people
streptococcus Sore throat, Take antibiotics When you
fever, mild and rest
come in
bacteria
contact with
headache
someone who
has it
Wash
hands, stay
away from
people who
have it
ChickenpoxVaricella
Zoster Virus
Mumps
Mode of
Transmission
Rubulavirus
Unique
Things
About
Currently,
Disease
there is no
vaccine.
Antibiotics
are not given
for colds
since
bacteria do
not cause
them.
Each year
the vaccine
has to be
changed
since the
strain of
virus
changes.
Can cause
heart
problems if
left untreated.
Can cause
severe birth
defects within
the first 20
weeks of
pregnancy.
Shingles can
be a later
reaction to
chickenpox.
Once
Fever,
Since it is a
Being coughed Wash
weakness, virus no
or sneezed on hands, don’t contracted, a
tiredness, antibiotics
by someone
share eating lifelong
immunity is
swollen
work, so you who is
utensils,
acquired most
glands on have to let the contagious
clean
of the time. If
an adolescent
sides of the mumps run its
frequently
face
course
used surfces contracts
mumps,
the
testicles
or
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ovaries
can
Fever,
headache,
sore throat,
rash
To ease the
Being around Wash
symptoms you someone who hands, get
can take
has it
vaccinated
Tylenol, and
drink plenty of
water
swell and
become
inflamed
resulting in
sterility.
Rubella
(Measles)
If a woman
contracts rubella
during pregnancy,
the following
conditions can
occur in the baby:
growth
retardation,
mental
retardation,
malformations of
the heart,
deafness, as
well as liver and
spleen damage.
Mononucleosis Epstein- Sore throat, Tiredness,
Spread
Don’t share Aspirin should
Barr virus fever, severe fever, aches, through
drinks with not be used to
fatigue,
direct
people, be treat symptoms.
(EBV)
sore throat
Aspirin can cause
general
contact
aware of
condition known
discomfort
with saliva those who as Reyes
have
syndrome and
mono,
can lead to liver
wash your failure and
death.
Polio
Polio has been
Coxsackie Progressive Flu like
Through hands
Get the
often
(abortive)
eliminated in the
A virus
muscle and
symptoms but contact
polio
Paralytic
U.S. and is on its
with feces vaccine
ancestor joint weakness often no
type of polio
way to being
symptoms but or through
and pain
Noneliminated
can eventually droplets of
paralytic
worldwide.
become
saliva
type of
paralyzed
polio
Blotchy rash,
Rubivirus Rash that
starts on the fever, cough
face, low
running nose,
fever,
conjunctivitis
headache,
inflamed eyes,
swollen tender
glands on the
back of the
neck
If you are
around
someone
who has it
and not
immune
then you
will most
likely get it
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Being
around
someone
who is
infected
and when
they
sneeze or
cough
Common Infectious Diseases
Disease
Athlete’s
Foot
Ringworm
Causative
Organism
Symptoms
Mode of
Prevention
Transmission
Treatment
Trichophyton
Itchy rash
Use of
Coming in
mentagrophytes; between toes antifungal contact with
Trichophyton
medications the fungus
rubrum
Fungus
Itchy rash
often in the
shape of a
ring
Tuberculosis Mycobacterium Bad cough,
chest pain,
tuberculosis
weight loss
chills, fever
Rabies
Rabdovirus
Smallpox
Variola virus
Wash feet,
socks,
shoes
Unique
Things
About
With
Disease
athlete's
foot, you
literally have
a plant living
on your
skin.
Infection is
not actually
a worm, but
has the
appearance
of one,
which gave
it its name.
Prescription Skin to skin
contact with
creams
someone/or
animal who
has it
Keep skin
clean
Getting
certain
shots
Once
medication
was
discovered
for TB, the
control
efforts were
neglected
and TB
outbreaks
increased.
The U.S. is
Stay Once
seeing a
away from symptoms
decline
in
show
up,
wild
TB
cases.
rabies
is
animals or almost 100%
other
fatal. Death
is slow and
animals
who might painful.
carry it
In recent
Get the
years,
smallpox
smallpox
vaccine
has become
before you associated
catch it
with possible
terrorist
attacks
because the
population is
no longer
given
vaccinations
for
Anxiety,
Wash
confusion,
wound with
hallucinations, soap and
insomnia,
water and
excessive
get on a
saliva
strict
schedule of
production
rabies
Fever,
Smallpox
vaccines
discomfort,
vaccines;
fatigue,
antibiotics
vomiting,
diarrhea
Being around stay away
someone with from those
who might
TB
have it
Bite from an
animal or
person who
has it
Via saliva
droplets
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smallpox.
Bird Flu
H5N1
High fever, Use of
Around birds
headache, antiviral
who carry the
diarrhea,
medication disease
sore throat,
insomnia
Lyme
Disease
Borrelia
bacteria
Distinctive With
circular rash antibiotics
Malaria
one-celled
parasite
called
plasmodium
Flu like
symptoms,
headache,
fatigue,
nausea
West Nile
Virus
singleRare
stranded
symptoms
RNA virus of such as
the family
headache,
Flaviviridae body aches
and pains
Clean
surfaces,
stay away
from certain
birds, get
the flu shot
From ticks who Protection
carry the
from tick
bites, if tick
disease
bite occurs
wash bite
with soap
and water
Taking
From an
medications infected
that can
mosquito bite
cure the
illness
No
From
treatments mosquitoes
are
who carry it
available,
but over the
counter pain
relievers are
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Take
medication
before and
after visiting
anywhere
where
malaria is
present
Use bug
spray and
stay in
netted areas
when
possible
Experts believe
that if human
transmission
becomes
possible,
massive
fatalities
could occur.
Disease has
spread since it
was first
diagnosed from
the East coast
to the West
Coast.
Malaria causes
more deaths
then any
other disease
in the world one million
people die
each year.
First case in
U.S. was 1999.
More common
in states in the
Midwest with
high humidity
and mosquito
population.
The virus has
been reported
in 46 states.