Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Spread of pathogens
- Food
- Eating raw or undercooked food
- Causes salmonella or diarrhoea
- Causes illnesses because
large amounts of
micro-organisms are in the
gut
- Touch
- Micro-organisms are
spread through having
direct contact with an
infected person
- Water
- Drinking water containing sewage
- Can cause diarrhoea or salmonella
- Air/droplet transmission
- Coughing, sneezing or talking
- Expelling tiny droplets full of
pathogens from breathing
system
- Other people breath in
droplets and pathogens they
contain
- Sharing body fluid
- Can be spread through mosquitos
- Take infected blood from one
person and pass it to another
- Animals
- Being bit by an infected animal
- Pathogens are transferred
from animal to you
- A break in the skin
- Pathogens enter body
through cuts, scratches or
needle punctures