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Name any two air borne diseases and how does the disease cause the spreading of microbes?
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∙ 14y ago
Airborne diseases are spread when droplets of pathogens are expelled into the air due to coughing, sneezing or talking.
Chicken pox and Influenza are both airborn diseases.
The disease itself does not actually initiate the spreading of itself.
As the disease work on our body, we may start to cough.
Then if other people are nearby, they will inhale the tiny droplets we propelled into the air by coughing. Froplets get stuck in the loungs and are free to start infecting another body.
It is not the disease itself that chooses to spread itself.
Think of the disease as a football filled with paint slowly leaking out and allways being refilled.
Then kick the football and watch it bounce. Every time it hits something, it will release some paint and "infect" the place it hit.
The football and paint does not do this by will, it does this because it is its nature when something has set it in motion.
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