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Question
What are communicable diseases?
Solution
Diseases which spread from an infected person to a healthy person are called communicable or infectious diseases. These diseases are caused through infections by microbes called pathogens.
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Given below is a crossword puzzle. Read the clues across and clues down, and fill up the blank squares. Check up your performance with the correct solution given at the end.
Clues across
1. Category of pathogen that causes diseases, like common cold and mumps.
5. This is the vaccine for preventing tuberculosis.
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7. Jumbled spelling of one of the most common insect which visits our exposed foods and contaminates them.
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10. A disease that weakens body’s defence system against infections.
Clues down
1. Germ or germ-substance introduced into the body to prevent occurrence of an infectious disease.
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3. A disease in which the eyes, the skin and the urine turn yellow.
4. The disease pertussis is popularly known as whooping
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