“PREVENTION IS

BETTER THAN
CURE”
DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
( COMMUNICABLE )
 ACTIVITY 1. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE NATURE
OF DISEASE?
• Read carefully the statement and answer it with true or false.
1. Organisms like bacteria and viruses are all-over the environment.
2. Many of the most common diseases are caused by tiny micro-organisms called pathogens.
3. Communicable diseases come from one infected person to the other.
4. Stomachache is one symptom that can be manifested by communicable disease.
5. Viral hepatitis is caused by virus that affects the liver.
6. Rabies virus enters the brain cells while polio virus attacks only the nervous system.
7. Malaria is a sickness caused by a carrier mosquito.
8. Pinworms hatch and live primary in the intestines of a person.
9. Stagnant water is a reservoir for mosquitos to multiply.
10. It is the nature of pathogens to invade their host through certain points of entry to cause morbidity.
 UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULT WORDS
• Pathogen – is an organism that causes disease to
its host; also known as infectious/disease agent.
• Communicable disease – is an illness transmitted
through contact with micro-organisms.
• Agent – Carrier of infectious disease
• Host – infected by disease
GROUP ACTIVITY
• Group yourselves into five. Each group
will be given meta-cards with pathogen
and its description in a paper. Read the
description and connect it with the
pathogen in the meta-cards. Paste your
finished work in the board and choose
within you’re a repertoire.
DISCUSSION
APPLICATION
• Identify the pathogen caused by the following diseases.
1. Mumps
2. Chicken pox
3. Ring worm
4. Amoebic dysentery
5. Roundworms
6. Cold
7. Trichina Spiralis
8. Cholera
9. Pneumonia
10. Tuberculosis
 ASSIGNMENT

• What are the different modes of transmission?

• What the two kinds of transmission
• Give 5 examples of communicable diseases and
its causative agent.