GCSE level School biology notes: Communicable diseases and risk factors and prevention

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What is a communicable disease?   What is a vector?

How can we minimise the spread of communicable diseases?

How do you prevent the spread of communicable diseases?

Describe and explain examples of communicable diseases?

There is some overlap between these pages on communicable diseases.

(1) Introduction to communicable diseases - pathogens

(2) Which types of pathogens cause communicable diseases?

(3) How are infectious pathogens spread?

(4) Bacterial pathogen communicable diseases - salmonella, E. coli

(5) Bacterial pathogen communicable diseases - cholera, tuberculosis (TB), stomach ulcers

(6) Bacterial pathogen communicable diseases - gonorrhoea, chlamydia (STDs)

(7) Viral pathogen communicable diseases - measles, chicken pox

(8) Viral pathogen communicable diseases - HIV (aids), HPV (both sexually transmitted diseases)

(9) Viral pathogen communicable diseases - ebola, hepatitis

(10) Pathogens that attack plants

(11) Examples of protist pathogen communicable disease - malaria

(12) More on how can we prevent, or reduce the spread of communicable diseases

See also

Viruses - structure, reproduction and cell destruction

non-communicable diseases

Keeping healthy - our defences against pathogens, fighting infectious diseases, vaccination

For evaluating data, statistics, graphs and correlation see last section on Keeping healthy - non-communicable diseases - risk factors

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