One person transmits it to two people, who give it to four people, who give it to eight people, and it just keeps going until it becomes a widespread illness.
Now, of course the illness may not follow such a tidy process, but the principle still applies.
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.
Communicable: can be spread through a community (contagious) Non-Communicable: not spread with contact (usually genetic)
non-communicable diseases
What is the mortality rate of communicable diseases in the Philippines?
Positive: Widespread crops and livestock that supported the increase in population throughout the regions. Negative: Slavery and communicable diseases.
communicable diseases
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.
National Institute of Communicable Diseases was created in 1963.
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual was created in 1915.
It means diseases that are infectious.
Yellow fever is a communicable disease.
Communicable diseases are diseases that pass from one human to another or from an animal to a human. Examples include impetigo, chicken pox, flu, tuberculosis and MRSA.