A Levels Biology (9700)•9700/12/M/J/19

Explanation
Hygiene practices prevent fecal-oral transmission diseases
Steps:
- Analyze advice: Focuses on food safety (cooking, peeling) and handwashing with boiled water to avoid contamination.
- Identify transmission: Targets ingestion of pathogens from unclean water/food, indicating fecal-oral route.
- Match to options: Cholera spreads via contaminated water/food; others use different routes.
- Confirm: Advice aligns with WHO guidelines for cholera prevention.
Why A is correct:
- Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, transmits through fecal-oral route in contaminated food/water, directly prevented by boiling water, cooking food, and hand hygiene.
Why the others are wrong:
- B: Malaria spreads via Anopheles mosquito bites, not food/water.
- C: Measles transmits through respiratory droplets/airborne, unaffected by food hygiene.
- D: Tuberculosis spreads via airborne droplets from coughs, not ingestion.
Final answer: A
Topic: Infectious diseases
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