Which among the following disease/s is/are treated by antibiotics?
i) Plague
ii) Diphtheria
iii) Leprosy
iv) Whooping cough
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → i, ii, iii, iv
Antibiotics are chemicals made by some microbes that can kill or stop the growth of disease-causing microbes. The book names four deadly bacterial diseases that antibiotics have made treatable.
i) Plague — True. It is caused by a bacterium, and antibiotics kill bacteria or stop their growth.
ii) Diphtheria (gal ghotu) — True. Diphtheria is a bacterial disease of the throat, so antibiotics can treat it.
iii) Leprosy (kusht rog) — True. Leprosy is caused by a bacterium, and the book lists it among the deadly diseases that antibiotics now treat.
iv) Whooping cough (kali khansi) — True. Whooping cough is a bacterial infection of the airways, so antibiotics work against it.
NCERT Extract:
Antibiotics – “… Antibiotics have greatly improved our capacity to treat deadly diseases such as plague, whooping cough (kali khansi), diphtheria (gal ghotu) and leprosy (kusht rog), which used to kill millions all over the globe. Today, we cannot imagine a world without antibiotics.”