Human Health and Disease: Infections, Cancer and Allergies

Biology · Chapter 11 · Unit 3: Biology and Human Welfare

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1. Part 1: Infectious diseases16 slides
2. Part 2: Cancer and allergies14 slides
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- Chapter test (short) — Human Health and Disease: Infections, Cancer and Allergies · 20 marks · 50 min
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Viral (common cold, chikungunya, dengue) and bacterial (typhoid and Widal test, pneumonia, diphtheria, plague) diseases: agents, transmission, symptoms, prevention
Protozoan (amoebiasis, malaria and life cycle of Plasmodium), helminthic (ascariasis, filariasis) and fungal (ringworm) diseases
Cancer: benign and malignant tumours, properties of cancer cells (loss of contact inhibition, metastasis), causes, diagnosis and treatment
Allergies and allergens: definition and general symptoms