Infectious diseases
Prepare an information booklet entitled “Infectious Disease and its Control,” written to inform voluntary health workers overseas.
In this assignment you need to :
1. Identify a range of organisms responsible for infectious diseases.
2. Explain how the structure of these organisms enables them to cause disease.
3.Outline how diseases can be transmitted by vectors.
4. Evaluate how the body’s non-specific defense systems help to prevent infection.
5. Evaluate how antibiotics, anti-viral and anti-fungal drugs can be used for treatment of pathogenic infection.
6. Describe humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
7. Explain the difference between a primary and secondary immune response using the diagram below.
8. Explain how vaccination works and how it can lead to artificial acquired immunity against certain infectious diseases.
9. Copy the following table onto your booklet and complete it distinguishing between passive and active forms of the acquired immunity. The first row has been completed as an explain.
