A communicable disease is one that is spread from one person to another through a variety of ways that include: contact with blood and bodily fluids; breathing in an airborne virus; or by being bitten by an insect.
Reporting cases of communicable disease is important in the planning and evaluation of disease prevention and control programs and in the detection of common-source outbreaks. It is likely that everyone will be affected with a communicable disease at some point in their lives.
List of Communicable Diseases
2019-nCoV.
CRE.
Ebola.
Enterovirus D68.
Flu.
Hantavirus.
Hepatitis A.
Hepatitis B.
The natural history of an untreated communicable disease has four stages: stage of exposure, stage of infection, stage of infectious disease, and stage of outcome.
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Communicable Disease
List of Communicable Diseases