Human Health and Disease


  1. 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.

    Correct Option: B

    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.


  1. Which one of the following conditions though harmful in itself, is also a potential saviour from a mosquito borne infectious disease?









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    A sickle cell anaemia affected person is more resistant to mosquito born infectious disease because the sickle - cell shaped RBCs are hostile to the protozoa Plasmodium.

    Correct Option: C

    A sickle cell anaemia affected person is more resistant to mosquito born infectious disease because the sickle - cell shaped RBCs are hostile to the protozoa Plasmodium.