Spreading of Communicable Disease Through Body Fluids


 
 
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Spreading of Communicable Disease Through Body Fluids

Spread through blood or other body fluids: Some infections are spread when blood or other body fluids (for example for example, urine, saliva, etc) from an infected person comes into contact with:

  • the mucous membranes (the thin moist lining of many parts of the body such as the nose, mouth, throat and genitals), or sexual contact or urine
  • the bloodstream of an uninfected person, such as through a needle stick injury or a break in the skin.
  • Examples of diseases spread through blood or other body fluids:

    Hepatitis B - blood, saliva, semen and vaginal fluids,

    Hepatitis C - blood,

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection - blood and semen.

    Corona Disease :  The disease spread when the virus causing the disease travels  through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person  coughs, sneezes or talks with the other person.

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    Question : 1

    If there is deficiency of ADH ( antidiuretic hormone), its effects is that __________________

    Right Option : A
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    Question : 2

    Which of the following  body fluid spread communicable disease ?

     

    Right Option : D
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    Question : 3

    Diseases which are spread by sharing injection needles, come under which category ?

    Right Option : C
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