| Disease | Causative Organism |
Mode of Transmission |
| (a) Amoebiasis | Entamoeba histolytica |
It is a vector-borne disease and it spreads by the means of contaminated food and water. The housefly is the vector involved in the transmission of this disease |
| (b) Malaria | Plasmodium spp. | It is a vector-borne disease that spreads by the biting of the female Anopheles mosquito. |
| (c) Ascariasis | Ascaris lumbricoides |
It spreads via contaminated food and water through fecal-oral transmission |
| (d) Pneumonia | Streptococcus pneumoniae |
It spreads through the sputum of an infected person via droplet infection. |
In your view what motivates youngsters to take to alcohol or drugs and how can this be avoided?
Why is it that it is difficult to get rid of this habit once a person starts taking alcohol or drugs? Discuss it with your teacher.
Do you think that friends can influence one to take alcohol/drugs? If yes, how may one protect himself/herself from such an influence?
List the harmful effects caused by alcohol/drug abuse.