indirect contact
Malaria is a vector based disease and is considered highly communicable, meaning it can be spread, though not easily from human to human. a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another.
"A vector is an animal, insect, or living organism that can carry and transmit communicable diseases to humans. The abatement or proper handling of vectors is important to the prevention of human illness." - http://www.yolocounty.org/org/Health/eh/general/bitesandvectors.asp#vector Therefore, a bat, a skunk, a dog or whatever animal carrying rabies is a vector... meaning rabies (a communicable disease) is a vector transmitted disease.
a communicable disease is also known as an infectious disease, contagious disease, or a transmissible disease. a communicable disease is one which is clinically evident (shows characteristic signs and symptoms) and can result from infection/presence/growth of a pathogen. pathogens include bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi etc. transmission of such a pathogen can occur via physical contact, contaminated food, body fluids (as with STIs), contaminated objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector organisms (as with malaria).
Malaria is not communicable between people. It is a vector borne disease that is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito between dawn and dusk.
vector-borne transmission
M. F. Day has written: 'A review of problems of specificity in arthropod vectors of plant and animal viruses' -- subject(s): Transmission, Virus-vector relationships, Insects as carriers of disease, Viruses, Communicable diseases
An organism that carries a disease-causing microorganism from one host to another is called a vector. An example of a vector is a deer tick carrying Lyme disease.
Air,water, contact with a carrier, or transmission from a vector.
A vector in Biology is a carrier /transporter of a virus fungi or bacteria. For example a plasmid is a vector that carries genetic information to a cell, and the mosquito is the vector of the malaria causing parasite.
No. Diabetes in not contagious. It is a chronic disease without a vector or transmission. Usually it is inherited or congenital.
what is the role of a vector in the spread of a disease
A vector is simply an organisms which serves to carry or transport a disease, for example the mosquito (an arthropod) carrying the protozoan malaria parasite. Hence a non-arthropod vector would be a vector outside phylum Arthropoda, for instance, a dog (a vertebrate, from phylum Chordata) carrying the rabies virus.