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Common Communicable Common Communicable Diseases Diseases

Enfermedad ContagiosaEnfermedad ContagiosaUnit 5:1Unit 5:1

Objective: Today you will learn what Objective: Today you will learn what a communicable disease is, examples a communicable disease is, examples of communicable diseases and how of communicable diseases and how

they are spread.they are spread.

Good Bacteria Bad Bacteria Just there Bacteria

Lactobacillus- to ferment and preserve milk and plant products

Intestinal Bacteria- Keep bad bacteria away

Probiotics- bacteria that help you keep a healthy colon.

Micro Flora- Help your body use vitamins

Streptococcus- Causes strep throat or pneumonia.

Campylobacter- Causes food poisoning

E. Coli- Causes you to get sick and can even kill you.

Yersinia pestis or bubonic plague

Disease Transmission Symptoms

Malaria Mosquito Fever Chills Excessive sweating, brain damage or death

Sleeping Sickness

Tsetse Fly Fever, headache, joint pain, confusion, insomnia. (When in Brain)

Amoebiasis Abscess in liver, lungs, spleen and skin. Blood in stool, abdominal pain.

Kitchen Floor is worse

A trash Can or the Kitchen Floor?

Sponge is worse

Dog Food Bowl or Sponge?

Cell Phone is worse

Cell Phone or Toilet Seat?

What type of Transmission

• The student in the class before you sneezes all over the keyboard and you use it and then get sick.

• Your friend has a pathogen that is still in the incubation phase. You share a straw and you end up sick.

• A dog has rabies and it bites you and passes the pathogens to you.

Fungi BacteriaVirus Virus Fungi RickettsiaBacteriaFungi Bacteria Virus Virus

Common Cold Common Cold Influenza Influenza ““FluFlu””

Hepatitis Hepatitis MononucleosisMononucleosis

• The MOST common communicable disease.

• Caused by any of 100 viruses.

Mild Fever Runny Nose

Itchy Eyes Sneezing Coughing

Mild Sore Throat Headache

Rest Drink a lot of liquids

Medicines only relieve symptoms temporarily, they don’t get

rid of the cold. This is why rest is important even if you are

feeling better. Rest and stay home for at least 24 hours

this is when your cold is most contagious.

Influenza is a communicable disease caused by a virus that changes rapidly making it difficult for vaccines to stop the spread of the flu completely.

Exhaustion Headache Body ache Respiratory Problems Fever

Rest Drink Fluids

Balanced Diet Medicines for Symptoms

A viral disease of the liver. Causes yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes, flu-like symptoms, and swelling of liver.

Hepatitis A Hepatitis B

-No treatment -Treat with medicine

-Contagious period -Contagious period

is unknown Varies and can be

-Vaccine is 100% years

effective -Vaccine is 80-95%

effective

Known as the “kissing disease” and “mono.” It is a viral disease and can be spread by kissing and by casual contact.

“the kissing disease”

XOXO

How to treat Mononucleosis?

A lot of Rest for 3-6 weeks

Chicken Pox Pneumonia Rubella

Measles Mumps Whooping Cough Tuberculosis

Vaccines have nearly wiped out those diseases.

Other Communicable

Diseases

A preparation of dead or weakened germs. Introduces your body to the pathogen and then your

body can learn to fight off the germs.

Vaccines have nearly wiped out those diseases.

Vaccines

Unit Project Spend any of you extra class time doing this

Word Search20 words

20 definitions Must be fully completed by the

end of the Graph Paper 25x25 square

• Handwashing activity