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Why is color blindness classed as non infectious?
Although it is a disease it is not contagious. If you were in close contact with a person who had color blindness you would not catch the disease.
Is color blindness an infectious disease like the common flu or influenza?
No, it is not an infectious disease like a cold or flu. Color blindness occurs in people who have a specific genetic trait for it. They often have adapted to the visual disorder by the time they are tested to find out they have it.
How do people contract the disease color blindness?
Color blindness is hereditary and non-communicable.
The greatest single cause of blindness in the world is?
Tracoma, a serious eye infection and the greatest single cause of blindness by an infectious disease.
Is color blindness like an infectious disease like the common cold or influenza?
Color blindness is caused by a genetic defect, not by an infection by a pathogen. There are several diseases that affects the eye that are caused by a pathogen, but none of these are color blindness, rather a simple infection. no in fact it is very rare. Colour blindness is a self-contained problem of the person who has the colour blindnesss. It is usually a genetic problem or just something that went haywire during fetal development. Most people who are colour blind don't know they have colour blindness until an adult in their life figures it out. It is more a illness with children, it is genetic disorder. hay are u doing the young geneticist card coz I'm stuck too not at all. no. No it isn't as color blindness is from genetic traits. Therefore, color blindness is 99% not infectious
Who discovered color blindness disease?
its John Dalton bitches!
A flag of which color is used to signify infectious disease?
black
Is colorblindess infectiuos?
No, color blindness is not infectious. Many times it is a genetic disability, and while it is possible to receive a color vision deficiency, it is impossible to 'catch' it; in order for color blindness to be infectious, it would have to be caused by an infection of some sort, and that is not the case. However, if it runs in your family, there is the possibility for you to obtain it.
How can you get Onchocerciasis?
Onchocerciasis or river blindness is a parasitic disease with an insect vector that breeds in water. It is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness. Controlling insect breeding sites in rivers is one of the pillars of prevention
What are some diseases or disorders that are genetic?
albinism. huntington's disease. color blindness. down's syndrome.
Is Parkinson's disease a infectious or noninfectious disease?
non infectious
What is an infectious disease doctor?
a doctor who helps people with infectious diseases.(see infectious disease)
