Viral Diseases - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Practice Questions & MCQ

Caused by a virus

Caused by a Gram-positive bacterium

Caused by a Gram-negative bacterium

not an infectious disease

Pneumonia is a communicable disease whereas the common cold is a nutritional deficiency disease.

Pneumonia can be prevented by a live attenuated bacterial vaccine whereas the common cold has no effective vaccine.

Pneumonia is caused by a virus while the common cold is caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae.

Pneumonia pathogen infects alveoli whereas the common cold affects nose and respiratory passage but not the lungs.

Chikungunya virus

Ebola virus

Hepatitis B virus

Human immunodeficiency virus