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It is known as a NON-INFECTIOUS disease. as it is caused by the lack of Vitamin C in the body.
Cancer, diabetes, hypertension are few non infectious diseases. These diseases are not transferred from one person to other person.
Diseases that are not transmitted from one person to another
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.
The similarities in how children and older people contract and react to infectious diseases is that they catch them very easily. However older people have had more diseases so they can fight off a wider variety.
infectious diseases involve a causative organism, from groups such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and such. Noninfectious diseases are not caused by a specific infectious organism. You get an infective disease from a bacteria or a virus or even a fungus. Other diseases are not caused by these but by other things. For example: cancer.
Diseases that are not transmitted from one person to another
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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.
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An "infectious disease" an agent that can be passed from one living organism to another. A non-infectious disease is a disease or other condition that cannot be spread to another organism.
Non infectious diseases are spread by the environment, bad nutrition, genetic inheritance, and hereditary diseases.