A communicable disease which affects a large number of people in a short period of time at a given locality is referred as: ...............

1. Pandemic 
2.  endemic
3. sporadic
4. epidemic

  Insufficient food rich in protein to children especially infants result into nutritional deficiency disease called.

1. Marasmus
2. Obesity
3. Kwashiorkor 
4.  Ricketts

How is plague transmitted from one person to another?

1. Through sexual intercourse with an infected person
2. By contact with water containing parasitic larvae
3. Through tsetse fly bites from infected to a healthy person
4. Through rat fleas bites from infected to a healthy person's

Which of the following is a vector of sleeping sickness?

1.  House fly
2.  Mosquito
3.  Tsetse-fly
4.  Tick
5.  Cockroach

The following are examples of water-borne diseases:

1.  malaria and bilharzia
2.  yellow fever and typhoid
3.  diarrhoea and malaria
4.  cholera and plaque
5.  cholera and typhoid

Which of the following is a symptom of Tuberculosis?

1. Curved legs
2. Darrhoea
3. Prolonged cough
4. Skin rashes

A viral disease transmitted through sexual intercourse is known as.

1. gonorrhoea 
2. typhoid
3. AIDS 
4.  small pox

  One of the following is not a risky behaviour:

1.   accepting favours and gifts from people of the opposite sex
2. having many sexual partners
3. keeping good company and avoiding immoral friends
4. using drugs such as bhang and cocaine

If there is cholera outbreak in the nearby school, which way would you use to prevent the disease?

1. Killing mosquitoes
2. Covering nose when sneezing
3. Boiling drinking water
4. Eliminating rat and fleas

  What does the concept of good health imply?

1. A state of physical, sexual and mental fitness
2. Being physically, mentally and socially fi
3. A state of family well being
4. Reproductive health and family care

Cholera is a disease transmitted by an organism called

1. flea
2. housefly
3. mosquito
4. bacteria

Which of the following are communicable diseases?

1. Gonorrhoea, sickle cell anemia, bilharzia.
2. Typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis.
3. AIDS, cholera, anemia.
4. Influenza, pellagra, cholera.

  What does the concept of good health imply?

1. A state of physical, sexual and mental fitness
2. Being physically, mentally and socially fi
3. A state of family well being
4. Reproductive health and family care

The ability of the human body to resist infection by disease causing micro-organisms is known as:

1.  immunity 
2. innoculation
3. medication 
4.  vaccination

  One of the following diseases is non-communicable:

1. cholera
2. kwashiorkor
3. malaria
4. tuberculosis

  The ability of the human body to resist infections caused by micro organisms is known as:

1. immunity 
2.  inoculation
3.  treatment 
4.  vaccination

You are invited by a Fema Club of a certain secondary school as a health officer. Explain how you will educate members of Fema Club on the cause, symptoms and transmission of HIV/AIDS. Give five symptoms and four ways of transmitting the disease.

Match the phrases in List A with the responses in List B by writing the letter of the correct response from List B beside the item number of List A in your answer booklet.

  Match the phrases in List A with the responses in ListB by writing the letter of the correct response from List B beside the item number of List A in your answer booklet provided.

13. Write a descriptive report which you can use to educate the community about the mode of transmission, symptoms and prevention measure of malaria in Tanzania.

12. Describe the symptoms of a person who is infected by Vibrio cholera and suggest six prevention measures and treatment for a cholera outbreak.

Explain any four effects of irresponsible sexual behaviour and suggest five ways of eradicating those behaviours in the community.

 Puberty is the transition period from childhood to adulthood where the body undergoes different psychological and physiological changes. Give six physiological changes which occur in boys during puberty.

Tuberculosis (TB) is among the threatening diseases in the country. Give four points on how you will educate the people on its symptoms and five preventive measures to be taken in order to minimize the spread of the disease. (15 marks)

12. Explain four ways of transmission, symptoms and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

12. Elaborate the causes of drug abuse to young people and advise the Tanzanian Government on the ways of combating drug abuse in the country.

13. Explain five factors which contribute to irresponsible sexual behavior among young people and their effect in the community.

(iii) One of the symptoms of cholera is diarrhea…………….

7. (a) What do you understand by the term “water borne diseases” as used in Biology?

……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… 

     (b) Name any three water borne diseases.

(i)     …………… ………………… ………………… …………

(ii)  …………… ………………… ………………… …………

(iii) …………… ………………… ………………… …………

     (c) What would happen if a health person drinks unboiled water contaminated with the following?

 (i) Salmonella typii……………… ……………… …………… …

 (ii) Entamoeba histolytica………… …………… …………………

11. Gonorrhea is a bacterial disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhea. Elaborate:(a) Its transmission

(b)Six symptoms

(c)Six preventive measures

(d)Its treatment

10.      Explain the cause, two symptoms, transmissions and prevention measures of cholera.