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(a) Identify the nos. (i) to (iv) in the following table :

  Name of
Disease
Causative
Organism

Symptoms

w

Pneumonia Streptococcus

(i)

x Typhoid (ii)

High fever, weakness,
headache, stomach pain

y (iii) Rhinoviruses

Nasal congestion and
discharge, sore throat,
cough, headache

z Ascariasis Ascaris

(iv)

(b) Which ones of the above mentioned diseases are transmitted through mechanical carriers?

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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a)
i) Symptoms- fever, chills, cough, severe problems in respiration and headache. In severe cases, the lips, finger and nails may turn gray to bluish in colour.
ii) Causative agent- Salmonella typhi
iii) Disease- Common cold
iv) Symptoms- internal bleeding, muscular pain, fever, anemia and blockage of the intestinal passage.

b) Mechanical carriers of the disease are pathogens that carry a disease from one host to another. Typhoid is the disease that is carried by the mechanical carrier which is the bacteria Salmonella typhi.

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