Matching Pairs DISEASES AROUND THE WORLDOnline version Match the correct image with the meaning by DANIELA DEL PILAR SILVA MOLINA 1 Marburg Virus Disease: it is a virus that people can get from prolonged exposure to mines or caves inhabited by Rousettus bat colonies. Has a variety of symptoms from high fever, severe headache, malaise and muscle aches, to watery diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea and vomiting and severe hemorrhage. 2 Chikungunya: viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Symptoms include fever and joint pain. 3 Plague: a disease manifested in several forms -- bubonic, septicaemic and pneumonic. Initially it looks like flu -- starts with fever, chills, head and body-aches as well as weakness, vomiting, and nausea. 4 Meningitis: a disease caused by a bacteria. Common symptoms include a stiff neck, high fever, sensitivity to light, confusion, headaches, and vomiting. 5 Hendra Virus Infection: a rare emerging disease that is transmitted from infected horses and humans. It has influenza-like symptoms that can range lead to severe respiratory or neurological disease. 6 SARS: severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome first originated in China in 2003. It is contagious disease that starts with high fever and can show headache, an overall feeling of discomfort, body aches, diarrhea, dry cough and pneumonia. 7 Coronavirus: is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 8 Yellow Fever: a viral infection transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Many people don’t show symptoms but infected patients can experience fever, muscle pain, backache, headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. 9 Smallpox: a very contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It is the only infectious disease to be eradicated. The announcement was made by the World Health Organization in 1980 after the U.N. agency led a global immunization campaign. 10 Ebola Virus Disease: A haemorrhagic fever that is often fatal in humans. It is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads through human-to-human transmission.
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