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What is the difference between chronic diseases and communicable diseases?
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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.
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communicable diseases can be spread from person to person whereas chronic disease is something that may be treatable, but not curable, fibromyalgia, athsma, diabetes
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