Which one of the following is not a viral disease?
  • Dengue
  • AIDS
  • Typhoid
  • Influenza
Which one of the following is not a bacterial disease?
  • Cholera
  • Tuberculosis
  • Anthrax
  • Influenza
Which one of the following disease is not transmitted by mosquito?
  • Brain fever
  • Malaria
  • Typhoid
  • Dengue
Which one of the following disease is not caused by bacteria?
  • Typhoid
  • Anthrax
  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
Which one of the following diseases is caused by protozoans?
  • Malaria
  • Influenza
  • AIDS
  • Cholera
Which one of the following has a long term effect on the health of an individual?
  • Common cold
  • Chicken pox
  • Chewing tobacco
  • Stress
Which of the following can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person?
  • High blood pressure
  • Genetic abnormalities
  • Sneezing
  • Blood cancer
AIDS cannot be transmitted by
  • sexual contact
  • hugs
  • breast feeding
  • blood transfusion
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because
  • viruses make use of host machinery
  • viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
  • viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
  • viruses have a protein coat
Which one of the following causes kala-azar?
  • Ascaris
  • Trypanosoma
  • Leishmania
  • Bacteria
If you live in a overcrowded and poorly ventilated house, it is possible that you may suffer from which of the following diseases:
  • Cancer
  • AIDS
  • Air borne diseases
  • Cholera
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?
  • Dengue
  • Malaria
  • Brain fever or encephalitis
  • Pneumonia
Which one of the following is not important for individual health?
  • Living in clean space
  • Good economic condition
  • Social equality and harmony
  • Living in a large and well furnished house
We should not allow mosquitoes to breed in our surroundings because they
  • multiply very fast and cause pollution
  • are vectors for many diseases
  • bite and cause skin diseases
  • are not important insects
Viruses, which cause hepatitis, are transmitted through
  • air
  • water
  • food
  • personal contact
Vectors can be defined as
  • animals carry the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person
  • microorganisms which cause many diseases
  • infected person
  • diseased plants
Match the column
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Who discovered that malaria parasite spread by female anopheles mosquito?
  • Edward Jenner
  • Ronald Ross
  • Marshall
  • None of these
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