Communicable Diseases Symptoms and Prevention – CBSE Class 9 Science
In this article, we will discuss the topic ‘Communicable Diseases Symptoms and Prevention‘, from the Chapter 5 – Why do we fall ill out for Class 9 Science.
Communicable diseases are those which get transferred from one person to another or one animal to a person or another animal by means of any contamination.
Communicable Diseases are :-
Malaria
- Malaria is insect-borne disease and caused by a parasitic protozoan,
- Plasmodium completes its life cycle in two hosts, man, and female Anopheles mosquito
- It is transmitted from person to person by the bite of the insect vector, the female Anopheles
- When a mosquito bites an infected person, the protozoa are sucked into the stomach of insect along with the blood and breed there.
- These parasites complete their life-cycle when they enter the red blood corpuscles in man and destroy them.
Symptoms
- High fever, headache, body ache, nausea, and shivering are some of the symptoms of malaria.
- Each malarial attack lasts for 6-10 hours and consists of the cold stage (shivering), hot stage (fever) and sweating stage (temperature goes down to normal).
Prevention
- Efforts must be made to prevent mosquitoes from biting and also prevent them from Breeding
- Following are some such methods:
- Use wire mesh on doors and windows to prevent entry of mosquitoes into the house
- Use mosquito repellents to prevent mosquito bites
- Spray kerosene on stagnant water bodies or introduce fishes that feed on mosquito larva into the water bodies, so that the larvae are killed
- Example of larvae eating fishes: Gambusia, Minnows, Trouts
- Spray insecticides like Malathion, BHC
- Clean tanks and sumps regularly
- Do not allow rainwater to collect and stagnate in the garden
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