A student makes a set of revision cards about communicable diseases.
Give the type of pathogen that causes each disease.
Choose each answer from: bacterium, fungus, protist, virus.
(i) influenza
(ii) salmonellosis
Ebola can cause internal and external bleeding.
State which body structures are damaged by the Ebola virus to cause this bleeding.
State what can happen to a host cell when new virus particles are released from it.
Helicobacter bacteria infect the stomach.
Describe one way these bacteria damage the stomach.
112 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Biology 5.1 Health and communicable disease, covering 5.1.1 Communicable and non-communicable diseases, 5.1.2 Disease susceptibility interactions, 5.1.3 Pathogens as disease-causing organisms, 5.1.4 Common infections, 5.1.5 Spread and prevention of pathogens, 5.1.6 Lifecycle of a virus, and 5.1.7 Spread and prevention of STIs. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.