Human Health and Disease
- Which one of the following diseases is now considered nearly eradicated from India?
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Small pox, caused by Variola virus, is an acute highly communicable disease which has been irradicated not only from India but from the whole world.
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Small pox, caused by Variola virus, is an acute highly communicable disease which has been irradicated not only from India but from the whole world.
- Interferons are
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Interferons are virus induced proteins produced by cells infected with viruses. They are antiviral in action.
Correct Option: A
Interferons are virus induced proteins produced by cells infected with viruses. They are antiviral in action.
- During blood typing agglutination indicates that the
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Antibodies bind to specific antigens to produce large insoluble complexes which render them harmless and facilitate their destruction by other cells of the immune system this process is called agglutination.
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Antibodies bind to specific antigens to produce large insoluble complexes which render them harmless and facilitate their destruction by other cells of the immune system this process is called agglutination.
- Passive immunity was discovered by
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Robert Koch is associated with Koch’s postulates that help in determining whether a given micro-organism is pathogenic or not. Louis pasteur experimentally proved that all life originated from pre-existing life. Emil Von Behring was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
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Robert Koch is associated with Koch’s postulates that help in determining whether a given micro-organism is pathogenic or not. Louis pasteur experimentally proved that all life originated from pre-existing life. Emil Von Behring was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a bovine disease is related to which human disease?
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a total brain disease known to exist in beef and other dairy cattle in U.K. It is also known as mad cow disease. It is caused by prions. Creutzfeldt- Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain. It has been suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating BSE- infected beef. So both are related. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain mostly due to viral infection.
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a total brain disease known to exist in beef and other dairy cattle in U.K. It is also known as mad cow disease. It is caused by prions. Creutzfeldt- Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain. It has been suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating BSE- infected beef. So both are related. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain mostly due to viral infection.