The main advantage in a expanded program of immunization is that it prevents communicable diseases from spreading to new victims. Without new victims and hosts to grow and spread an outbreak of a communicable disease will naturally die out.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
Yellow fever is a communicable disease.
It means diseases that are infectious.