Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How diseases are spread and caused
- Touch
- By touching an infected person
- Eg, MRSA, spread by contact or dirty sheets
- In contact with an object an infected person has touched
- Water
- in overcrowded conditions
- Sewage in drinking water
- eg. Cholera
- Food
- Bacteria in Food
- Cooking food helps kill bacteria
- Eg. Food Poisoning
- Animals
- Some animals carry microbes
- eg. Mosquitos carry yellow fever and malaria
- Sex
- Passed on through unprotected sex
- eg. Syphilis