INTERESTING FACTS

INTERESTING FACTS WBW is organized and promoted world wide by WABA (World Alliance for Breast feeding Action), WHO (World Health Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) to stress the importance of breast feeding during the first six months of baby’s life and a supplemented breast feeding for two years in order to encourage new mothers for the healthy growth and development of their children, to guard them from lethal health problems and diseases including neonatal jaundice, pneumonia, cholera, etc., The Government of Tamil Nadu has also initiated various projects like Mother’s Milk Bank, Feeding rooms in bus terminals and also organisizes awareness campaigns during the first week of August to highlight the importance of breast feeding to infants. INTERESTING FACTS Human Health and Diseases . Marijuana is extracted from a) Dried leaves and flowers of hemp plant b) Ergot fungus c) Roots of hemp plant d) Cocoa plant . Choose the correctly match pair.

a) Amphetamines - Stimulant b) LSD - Narcotic c) Heroin - Psychotropic d) Benzodiazepine - Pain killer . The Athlete’s foot disease in human is caused by------- a) Bacteria b) Fungi c) Virus d) Protozoan . Cirrhosis of liver is caused by chronic intake of ------ a) Opium b) Alcohol c) Tobacco d) Cocaine . The sporozoite of the malarial parasite is present in ---- a) saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito.

b) RBC of human suffering from malaria. c) Spleen of infected humans. d) Gut of female Anopheles mosquito. .

Haemozoin is a) A precursor of haemoglobin. b)A toxin from Streptococcus . c) A toxin from Plasmodium species. d) A toxin from Haemophilus species.

. The drug synthesised from Datura is a) Hallucinogen b) Depressant c) Stimulant d) Pain killer