Question

______ is a disease that generally develops in the lungs with symptoms such as fever, cough, chest pain and weight loss.
1. Malaria
2. Dengue
3. Elephantiasis
4. Tuberculosis

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Tuberculosis

The correct answer is Tuberculosis.

• Tuberculosis is a disease that generally develops in the lungs with symptoms such as fever, cough, chest pain, and weight loss.
• Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infection that usually attacks your lungs.
  • It can also spread to other parts of your body, like your brain and spine.
• Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
• The classic symptoms of active TB are a chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss.
• Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993.
• In 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aimed to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015.
• Tuberculosis prevention and control efforts rely primarily on the vaccination of infants and the detection and appropriate treatment of active cases.
• The only available vaccine as of 2011 is Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG).
  • Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis.
• ​About Malaria:
  • Caused by a parasite that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito which feeds on humans.
  • Spread: Female Anopheles mosquitoes deposit parasite sporozoites into the skin of a human host.
  •  World Malaria Day 2020 is being celebrated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on April 25 with the theme ‘Zero malaria starts with me’.