Infectious Diseases (I part)

A type of very small organism that lives in air, earth, water, plants, and animals, often one that causes disease:

• bacterium
• cholera
• rash

An occasion when spots suddenly appear on your face

• eruption
• bacillus
• microorganism

A serious infection of the bowels caused by drinking infected water or eating infected food, causing diarrhoea, vomiting, and often death

• cholera
• rash
• malaise

A general feeling of bad health or lack of energy in a person, group, or society:

• malaise
• plague
• eruption

A serious disease which kills many people

• plague
• whooping cough
• diphtheria

A disease, common especially in children, that causes severe coughing

• whooping cough
• enteric fever
• cholera

A disease that you can get from the bite of a particular type of mosquito ( a small flying insect).

• malaria
• plague
• whooping cough

A serious infectious disease that causes fever and difficulty in breathing and swallowing

• diphtheria
• whooping cough
• malaria

A serious infection of the bowels caused by drinking infected water or eating infected food, causing diarrhoea, vomiting, and often death

• cholera
• malaria
• diphtheria

A living thing that on its own is too small to be seen without a microscope

• microorganism
• bacterium
• bacillus