Question

Describe difference between communicable and non communicable disease

Answer 1

A cold is an example of a communicable disease (a cold is the general term given to a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract). ... That cold has now been passed from one infected person to another uninfected person, spreading the communicable disease. You can probably identify other communicable diseases.

Answer 2

Communicable diseases are those disease which spread from one person to another, through the wind, water or direct or indirect mode and are highly infectious.

Non-communicable diseases are those, which are not spread and are non-contagious, but are caused due to allergy, long illness, abnormalities in cell proliferation, inherited, malnutrition.