MCQ IN MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Airborne diseases are bacteria or viruses that are most commonly transmitted through small respiratory droplets. These droplets are expelled when someone with the airborne disease sneezes, coughs, laughs, or otherwise exhales in some way.

Detailed explanation-2: -Germs Can Be Spread in the Air Droplets containing germs are released into the air when a person coughs or sneezes. These tiny droplets can travel as far as 6 feet and can spread germs by landing on surfaces or in another person’s eyes, nose, or mouth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Germs can spread: from person to person: directly through close contact. indirectly from an infected person to an object (such as door handles, bench tops, food) and then to another person who comes into contact with the contaminated item.

Detailed explanation-4: -the air as small droplets (droplet spread) or tiny aerosol particles (airborne spread) contact with faeces (poo) and then with the mouth (faeco-oral spread) contact with the skin or mucus membranes (the thin moist lining of many parts of the body such as the nose, mouth, throat and genitals) (contact spread)