Using the Study Guides Answer the Following Questions on Your Own Paper

Diseases Worksheet

Infectious

Using the study guides answer the following questions on your own paper.

Viral Diseases

1. What is the difference between an infectious and a noninfectious disease?

2. What is the difference between an acute and chronic disease?

3. Name three things that can cause an infectious disease.

4. What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium?

5. By itself, is a virus a living organism?

6. Approximately how many people get influenza (flu) each year?

7. If you had a “head cold” would it be the flu or the common cold? Why?

8. When a child has the mumps what part of the body is infected by the mumps virus?

9. How is rabies transmitted to a human? What part of the body does the virus attack?

10. If you get rabies and leave it untreated what will happen?

11. What is another name for hepatitis A?

12. Which is chronic – hepatitis A or hepatitis B?

13. Name three ways to get hepatitis B.

14. If your little sister gets chickenpox when will it be OK to let her go back to school?

15. Which of the following diseases has killed the most people? Measles, German measles, Smallpox, Chickenpox

16. When was the first case of AIDS reported in the United States?

17. What is the name of the virus that causes AIDS?

18. Name three ways that you CANNOT get the AIDS virus.

19. Name four ways that the HIV virus can be passed from person to person.

Bacterial Diseases

20. Name the three types of bacteria and the shapes they have.

21. Most anthrax infections occur when?

22. Would you consider anthrax a harmful or harmless disease?

23. Name two locations that the leprosy bacteria attacks.

24. Which country has the largest group of leprosy patients?

25. Which bacterial disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States?

26. What is the leading cause for Cholera and Typhoid Fever?

27. Is Tuberculosis transmitted by water, food, or the air?

28. Name the four stages of Syphilis.

29. How long do the sores last in primary syphilis?

30. What is the condition that is shown in secondary syphilis? How long does it last?

31. How long does it take before tertiary syphilis begins?

32. What happens to the human body during tertiary syphilis?

33. The only way syphilis can be spread is by __________________.

34. Can a person recover from Salmonellosis without going to the doctor?

35. What can happen is the Salmonella bacterium gets into the bloodstream?

36. Name two places you can get the Salmonella bacterium.

37. What would a person most likely get botulism (food poisoning)?