Question

What is the specific way of preventing infectious diseases?

Answer 1

Decrease your risk of infecting yourself or others: Wash your hands often. This is especially important before and after preparing food, before eating and after using the toilet. Get vaccinated.

Answer 2

a) Safe drinking water :-

Drinking water should be filtered to remove suspended particles and boiled, ozonized and treated with chlorine before drinking to avoid water borne disease like typhoid, cholera, etc.

b) Proper disposal of waste:-

Garbage should not be dumped here and there rather it should be thrown in covered garbage cans and burnt or buried for disposal.

c) Control of vectors:-

Growth and breeding of animals like mosquitoes and flies, cockroaches should be controlled, by keeping surroundings clean, spraying insecticides, removing stagnant water from populated areas.