aids(acquired immuno deficiency syndrom)
Communicable lung diseases would be Tuberculosis, the common cold, HiNi flu, these are contagious. Non-communicable lung diseases would be asthma, COPD, and Lung cancer.
The most common answer I get when asking people this is 'old age'. But 'old age' is not a scientific classification of a type of death. The most common form of death at the moment is by non-communicable disease, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease or respiratory diseases. So, once we have 'won the battle' against these non-communicable diseases, and assuming that communicable diseases do not start killing more people, what will we be dying from?
Communicable diseases spread from one person to another by pathogens. Three well-known communicable diseases are the common cold, strep throat, and HIV/AIDS.
The following are the common communicable diseases in the east Nigeria; diarrhoea, dysentry, whooping cough, measleas, anthrax, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, e.t.c
Because non-communicable diseases are not passed from one person to another - communicable diseases are.
aids(acquired immuno deficiency syndrom)
usually through body fluids
Diseases are frequently referred to as communicable or non-communicable. Communicable diseases comprise infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and measles, while non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are mostly chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes. That leads to the term communicable.
Henry Stanley Banks has written: 'The common infectious diseases' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases 'Modern practice in infectious fevers' -- subject(s): Communicable diseases
Communicable: can be spread through a community (contagious) Non-Communicable: not spread with contact (usually genetic)
non-communicable diseases
The scope and significance of communicable diseases is that they are all illnesses that are caused by some kind of infectious agent. Communicable diseases are also called infectious diseases (or transmissible diseases).