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Read the descriptions below and match them to the names of the illnesses: 

1) influenza

2) varicella

3) infectious parotitis

4) rubeola

Many illnesses also have informal names. Match the informal and formal names listed below. 

INFORMAL

1. Chickenpox is the same as

2. A cold is the same as

3. The flu is the same as

4. German measles is the same as

5. Hay fever is the same as

6. Measles is the same as

7. Mumps is the same as

8. Whooping cough is the same as

Complete these six conversations between doctors and patients by writing in the name of the illness.

- How are you today?

- Oh, not very well. I've got a cough and a terrible cold.

- Do you have a fever?

- Umm, yes I do.

- It's probably a touch of ……………………

Read the description which follow, using your dictionary as and when necessary. What is the disease or illness being described?

An infectious disease in which infected lumps form in the tissue. Its commonest form is infection of the lungs, causing patients to lose weight, cough blood and have a fever. It is caught by breathing in germs or by eating contaminated food, especially unpasteurised milk.

Read the description which follow, using your dictionary as and when necessary. What is the disease or illness being described?

A serious, infectious disease of children. Its first symptoms are a sore throat, followed by a slight fever, rapid pulse and swelling of the glands in the neck. A fibrous growth like a membrane forms in the throat and can close the air passages. The disease is often fatal, either because the patient is asphyxiated or because the heart becomes fatally weakened.

Test your medical abbreviations. What do the following stand for? Check the ones you don't know in the dictionary.

1 AIDS

2 CHD

3 D&V

4 GP

5 TB 

6 WHO

7 BP

What methods of transmission of hepatitis A and E do you know?

What methods of transmission of hepatitis B, C, D  and E do you know?

Establish a correspondence between the disease and the day of struggle against it:

1. World Cancer Day

2. World aids day

3. World Tuberculosis Day

What type of anesthesia does intravenous anesthesia refer to?