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What are acquired disease?


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Answer 1

Explanation:

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(1) Diseases which are developed after the birth of an individual are called acquired diseases.

(2) These are of two types, viz. (a) Communicable or infectious diseases and (b) Non-comnunicable or Non-infectious diseases.

(3) Communicable or infectious diseases are transmitted from infected person to another healthy person either directly or indirectly They are caused due to pathogens like viruses, bacteria, fungi. helminth worms, etc.

(4) Non-communicable or Non-infecitous diseases cannot be transmitted from infected person to another healthy one either directly or indirectly.

Answer 2

Answer:

An acquired disease is one that began at some point during one's lifetime, as opposed to disease that was already present at birth, which is congenital disease. Acquired sounds like it could mean "caught via contagion", but it simply means acquired sometime after birth.