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5 Infectious Diseases

In this unit, students are able to:
• conduct and participate in a staff meeting.
• design an information poster.
• present an information poster on infectious diseases.

Lead in

Diseases can be classified into infectious and noninfectious diseases. Categorize the following diseases into
infectious and noninfectious.

Cholera Stroke Diabetes Measles Autism

Cancer Chickenpox Herpes Lupus Influenza
Tuberculosis HIV/AIDS Ebola Leukemia Osteoporosis

Infectious Noninfectious

Reading 1

Read a passage about a person telling about an infectious disease she suffered below.

Kate’s TB Personal Story

Kate started to get very Soon she could barely swallow
sick almost as soon as she because her throat was so sore
became pregnant, like she had from coughing. She would
a really bad cold. Then came a often wake up in the morning
constant cough and night and cough for 15 minutes

sweats. At first she thought it before starting the day.
was just because she was Her primary care doctor
pregnant. “When you’re thought it may be pneumonia
pregnant, there’s a certain amount of you that but Kate wasn’t getting any better. She saw a
expects to feel a little run down and feel a little number of different doctors, but no one could
horrible,” says Kate. But the coughing continued. figure out what was causing her illness. After

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