1. Common Communicable
Diseases
Enfermedad Contagiosa
Unit 5:1
Objective: Today you will learn what a
communicable disease is, examples of
communicable diseases and how they
are spread.
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8. Good Bacteria
Bad Bacteria
Lactobacillus- to
ferment and preserve
milk and plant products
Streptococcus- Causes
strep throat or
pneumonia.
Intestinal BacteriaKeep bad bacteria
away
CampylobacterCauses food poisoning
E. Coli- Causes you to
Probiotics- bacteria that get sick and can even
help you keep a healthy kill you.
colon.
Yersinia pestis or
Micro Flora- Help your bubonic plague
body use vitamins
Just there Bacteria

12. Disease
Transmission
Symptoms
Malaria
Mosquito
Fever Chills Excessive
sweating, brain
damage or death
Sleeping
Sickness
Tsetse Fly
Fever, headache, joint
pain, confusion,
insomnia. (When in
Brain)
Amoebiasis
Abscess in liver, lungs,
spleen and skin. Blood
in stool, abdominal
pain.

15. A trash Can or the Kitchen Floor?
Kitchen Floor is worse

16. Dog Food Bowl or Sponge?
Sponge is worse

17. Cell Phone or Toilet Seat?
Cell Phone is worse

21. What type of Transmission
• The student in the class before you
sneezes all over the keyboard and you
use it and then get sick.
• Your friend has a pathogen that is still in
the incubation phase. You share a
straw and you end up sick.
• A dog has rabies and it bites you and
passes the pathogens to you.

23. Fungi
Bacteria
Virus
Virus
Fungi
Rickettsia
Bacteria
Fungi
Bacteria
Virus
Virus

25. Common Cold Influenza “Flu”
Hepatitis
Mononucleosis

26. • The MOST common communicable disease.
• Caused by any of 100 viruses.
Mild Fever
Runny Nose
Itchy Eyes Sneezing Coughing
Mild Sore Throat
Headache

27. Rest
Drink a lot of liquids
Medicines only relieve symptoms temporarily, they don’t get
rid of the cold. This is why rest is important even if you are
feeling better. Rest and stay home for at least 24 hours
this is when your cold is most contagious.

28. Influenza is a communicable
disease caused by a virus that
changes rapidly making it difficult
for vaccines to stop the spread of
the flu completely.
Exhaustion Headache Body ache
Respiratory Problems
Fever

29. Rest
Balanced Diet
Drink Fluids
Medicines for Symptoms

30. A viral disease of the liver. Causes yellowing of the skin
and whites of the eyes, flu-like symptoms, and swelling
of liver.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
-No treatment
-Treat with medicine
-Contagious period
-Contagious period
is unknown
Varies and can be
-Vaccine is 100%
years
effective
-Vaccine is 80-95%
effective

31. Known as the “kissing disease” and
“mono.” It is a viral disease and can be
spread by kissing and by casual
contact.
XOXO
“the kissing disease”

33. How to treat Mononucleosis?
A lot of Rest for 3-6 weeks

34. Other Communicable
Diseases
Chicken Pox
Pneumonia Rubella
Measles Mumps Whooping Cough
Tuberculosis
Vaccines have nearly wiped out those diseases.

35. Vaccines
A preparation of dead or weakened germs. Introduces your body to the
pathogen and then your body can learn to fight off the germs.
Vaccines have nearly wiped out those diseases.

36. Unit Project
Spend any of you extra class time doing this
Word Search
20 words
20 definitions
Must be fully completed by the end of the
Graph Paper 25x25 square

37. • Handwashing activity