Question

The general ways of preventing infections mostly related to exposure? List 3 points of prevention of exposure

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Prevention from a disease is better than its cure. Prevention measures help individuals to avoid the disease and harm caused to the body by disease. Infections and diseases result in a negative effect on the individual’s health and disrupt the normal routine. The best way of prevention is to prevent exposure to the diseased agent as if agent is avoided, the disease is avoided. For example:

✔In AIDS, prevention from exposure to the virus is the only way to avoid the disease as once the virus enters body; there is no cure for it. AIDS can be prevented by avoiding the routes of transmission of the virus.

✔If a person is suffering from flu, it is advised to stay away from the infected person to avoid the exposure to the infectious agents. Also, the infected person follows precaution to not to spread the infection.

✔In the case of chicken pox or measles, the exposure to the virus is prevented by isolating the infected individuals and not touching there rashes and sores.