what are communicable diseases? How do they spread?
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Communicable Diseases
Communicable diseases, also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases, are illnesses that result from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or other animal host.
Means of spread
Infectious diseases can spread in a variety of ways: through the air, from direct or indirect contact with another person, soiled objects, skin or mucous membrane, saliva, urine, blood and body secretions, through sexual contact, and through contaminated food and water.
Explanation:
Communicable diseases:-
This is a type of diseases which transfer from one person to another is known as communicable diseases. Example :- A girl has suffered from viral disease and is always living besides her mother then after someday her mother was also suffered from viral disease because she was living with her daughter then the disease of her daughter was transferred to her mother .