What is the difference between infectious diseases and communicable diseases?

Answer 1

Communicable diseases are those diseases, which can be transferred from one person to another. They include the infectious diseases, which are caused by various infections by microorganisms. They are also communicable.

Answer 2

Infectious disease can be whats called endogenous, which means one person can have it and it can spread in that one person, but it can't spread to anyone else, but other Infectious Diseases, like Staph, Strep, MRSA and others can be caught by others. It depends on the type of bacteria involved.

Communicable diseases can be transmitted to others. More often than not the term communicable is used to describe STDs (sexually transmitted diseases ) or when people live in close relationships and share personal things, like drinking or eating after each other or washcloths and towels. TB and hepatitis for example, fall under communicable and the more common term contagious, although a person is less likely to get TB or hepatitis just being in a room once or twice with a person who has either one of them, than being in a room where a person has a cold or the flu and sneezing a lot or coughing with a little fever. Colds and flu are very contagious, the same way measles, mumps, chicken pox and even polio was before vaccines were found for them.

Answer 3

contagious disease (also called a communicable disease) is an infectious disease that is capable of being transmitted from one person or species to another. Contagious diseases are often spread through direct contact with an individual, contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals, or with objects that the infected individual has contaminated

Apparently they are the same.

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Not true. Contagious essentially means "extremelycommunicable."

"Contagious diseases" are most often communicable enough to warrant quarantine, whereas "communicable diseases" (such as the flu) are not.

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According to the testbook: Microbiology by Tortora (ch 14):

Communicable disease: A disease that is spread from one host to another

Contagious disease: A disease that is easilyspread from one host to another

Answer 4

The respective possibility for the transmission or non-transmission by patients is the difference between communicable infections and non-communicable diseases. A condition which cannot be passed on from person to person necessarily will be considered non-infectious.

Answer 5

Yes, they are the same. Both mean contagious diseases that can be passed from one entity to another.

Answer 6

Infectious means communicable.

Answer 7

One of them is contagious and the other is not.

Answer 8

There is none. A communicable disease is the same as an infectious disease.

Answer 9

Sadly Yes