Name that Pathogen Quiz
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When I infect a person, the person may only develop symptoms years later.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can be treated with quinine and chloroquine
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I will start causing sickness if I am able to reach the intestine
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can also infect cattles and spread to humans in meat and milk.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I have no cure.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
My symptoms include rocking cough, coughing blood, chect pain, shortness of breath, fever, sweating, weight loss
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I will spread to another person if the infected person sneezes and a healthy person inhale that air with the droplets which contains the bacteria.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am food-borne & water-borne
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis & Mycobacterium bovis
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I cause fever, anaemia, nausea, headaches, muscle pain, shivering, sweating, enlarged spleen.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am caused by Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
My vector is a mosquito
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can be prevented if people ensure basic hygiene including washing their hands before handling food or cooking utensils.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I do my job by the infection and destruction of the cell’s body immune system (T-helper cells, macrophages and brain cells)
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can be prevented with vaccination.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am caused by vibrio cholerae
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can be treated with drugs which takes longer than six months.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am transmitted through airborne droplets.
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am caused by the human immunodeficiency virus
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I can be prevented by :
1) reducing the number of mosquitoes
2) avoid being bitten by mosquitoes
3) Use drugs to prevent parasite infecting people
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
Treatment for me include:
Oral rehydration therapy (to maintain osmotic balance of the blood and tissue fluids)
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
My site of action is in the liver, red blood cells and brain
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am transmitted in semen and vaginal fluids during sexual intercourse, infected blood or blood products, contaminated hypodermic syringes, mother to foetus across placenta, at birth, mother to infant in breast milk
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I am distributed throughout the tropics and sub-tropics
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
I infect the lungs (primary infections); lymph nodes, bones and gut (secondary infections)
A. TB
B. HIV/AIDS
C. Cholera
D. Malaria
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