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Prevención de enfermedades tropicales

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1. Responder las siguientes preguntas:

a. What are tropical diseases?

b. Enumerar por lo menos cinco enfermedades tropicales comunes en su región.

2. Investigar y explicar las siguientes enfermedades, informando: transmisión, signos y síntomas, tratamiento, cómo prevenirlas y combatirlas:

a. Malaria

b. Fiebre amarilla

c. Leishmaniasis

d. Dengue

e. Enfermedad de Chagas

3. Explicar cómo eliminar los siguientes depósitos de agua acumulada, evitando la proliferación de mosquitos:

a. Neumáticos

b. Botellas

c. Comederos de animales

d. Tanques de agua

e. Bromelias o plantas que acumulan agua

f. Platito de macetas

g. Tubs

h. Gutters

i. Lids, cans and small disposable bowls

j. External refrigerator tray

4. Complete the following tasks:

a. Participate, together with your club, unit, or school, in a campaign against dengue in your neighborhood.

b. Collect containers that can accumulate water in plazas and streets in your community, and eliminate them correctly.

c. Acquire informational brochures about the main tropical diseases and distribute them in your neighborhood or school.

d. Correctly eliminate the trash in your home for a week.

e. Help an elderly person in your neighborhood free from deposits that accumulate water, carrying out the following tasks:

i. Teach how to maintain the home free from possible focus point for mosquitoes.

ii. Inform about care and symptoms of the researched diseases.

iii. Clean the home, collect and eliminate unusable deposits.

5. With the help of your counselor, make a presentation, debate or skit for your club or unit about tropical diseases studied in this honor.