PHS: Edexcel Health and Disease sB5e Spreading Pathogens

Which of the following diseases can be spread by pathogens in droplets in the air? (mulitple answers)

• flu
• common cold
• tuberculosis (TB)
• cholera

Which of the following diseases is spread in water?

• cholera
• malaria
• flu
• chalara ash dieback

Which of the following diseases needs a vector to spread the pathogen?

• malaria
• flu
• cholera
• tuberculosis (TB)

Keeping things clean to remove or kill pathogens is known as good ...?

• hygiene
• practice
• manners
• common sense

What name is given to animals that transmit infection?

• vectors
• infectious
• host
• intermediary

What is the vector responsible for the spread of malaria?

• mosquito
• Plasmodium
• humans
• Tsetse fly

What type of pathogen causes malaria?

• protist
• bacteria
• virus
• fungi

What is the name of the protist that causes malaria?

• Plasmodium
• Helicobacter
• Campylobacter
• Salmonella

Which mosquito carries the Plasmodium pathogen?

• Female only
• Male only
• Both male and female

How does the Plasmodium pathogen get into people?

• Mosquitoes inject it into the blood when it feeds on someone.
• The Plasmodium is breathed in via small droplets of water
• Mosquitoes leave it on the skin, and people touch it before then touching their faces
• It enters the body through small cuts and lesions