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Mary anticipates coming into contact with blood and body fluids of a patient To protect herself and others from potential infectious diseases she must wear what?
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Gloves and goggles?
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What are infectious diseases?
Any communicable disease is an infectious disease. See "Infectious and no infectious diseases what is the difference?" question .Common Cold Common cold and AIDS both are infectious diseases unless you take necessary precautions.
Which is easy to control infectious or non infectious diseases?
Non-infectious diseases are easier to control - because you only need to treat the individual patient. With infectious diseases - the illness is spread between people - by touching or simply breathing in the same air while in close contact.
What are three infectious diseases?
Infectious disease in one that is spread by intimate contact with body fluids. Some of these are influenza, mononucleosis, and Chlamydia.
How are infrctious diseases spread?
Infectious diseases spread either by person to person contact, or indirectly by a vector or a fomite.
What diseases can you catch?
infectious diseases (those with bacterial or virus, or prion) you can also "catch" chemical based diseases such as contamination burns if you come into contact with someone with the chemicals on them.
Where may an individual find information on emerging infectious diseases?
The best way to find out about emerging infectious diseases would be to contact your doctor to discuss it. If you would prefer you could look on a health website or blog.
How do you acquire communicable diseases?
By coming in direct contact with people that have the disease, or if the nature of the illness is such that the infectious agent can survive outside the body by making contact with those infectious agents where they are left by the carriers of the disease.
What is an example of indirect contact that spreads some infectious diseases?
inhaling infected drops of moisture
How is a non infectious disease different from a infectious disease?
Infectious diseases are those diseases which are caused by infectious agents (which include microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa and virus, as well as some multicellular animals such as worms) and hence they are the ones which can spread from one person to another. Non-infectious diseases are those diseases that are not caused by infectious agents and do not spread from one person to another.
Infectious diseases that are passed from person to person during sexual contact is called sexually?
sexually transmitted disease or STD
How commiuncable diseases are spread?
Communicable diseases are those that are spread by contact with other people or items that have touched their bodies. The other terms associated with this term are contagious and infectious which specify more clearly which type of contact is required for transmission.
What is non infectious diseases?
A non infectious diseases can not be transmitted to other humans. Non-infectious diseases are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another. Diseases caused by these organisms are infectious diseases. There are many kinds of non-infectious diseases. A non-infectious disease is a disease that may be caused by either the environment, nutritional deficiencies or genetic inheritances. Some examples include; Environmental causes such as skin cancer from radiation (from the Sun), or lack of food (e.g. scurvy from lack of Vitamin C), genetic disorders, or any source other than an infection. They can also be caused by drugs and carcinogens (cancer-causing agents). Non-infectious diseases cannot be spread from person to person as in infectious disease, but can be passed down genetically in some cases such as hemophilia in the royal blood line. Historically, infectious diseases were the main cause of death in the world and, indeed, in some developing regions this may still be the case. With the development of antibiotics and vaccination programs, infectious disease is no longer the leading cause of death in the western world. Non-infectious disease is now responsible for the leading causes of death in both developed and some developing countries. There Hope Your Happy :D
