Diseases: JAMB Biology Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Diseases

Our summary: Common, endemic and easily spread diseases, their vectors and agents, and how vaccination prevents them.

• Common and endemic diseases
• Easily transmissible diseases and disease syndrome (Such as poliomyelitis, cholera, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease/syndrome (gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS, etc.).)

Objectives

• identify ecological conditions that favour the spread of common endemic and potentially epidemic diseases e.g. malaria, meningitis, dracunculiasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, typhoid fever and cholera.
• relate the biology of the vector or agent of each disease with its spread and control
• use the knowledge of the causative organisms, mode of transmission and symptoms of the listed diseases to their prevention - treatment - control
• apply the principles of inoculation and vaccination on disease prevention.

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