Diseases communicable or non communicable

Communicable diseases can also be

caused by the environment, give two other causes of communicable diseases?

• human to houses

• person to other people, animals

Communicable diseases are also known as?

• infectious diseases

• non infectious diseases

Non-communicable diseases are also known as?

• not severe diseases

• chronic diseases.

Chronic as a non-communicable disease means it...?

• lasts for a longer period of time and progress gradually.

• a very short time and a speedy recovery

examples of communicable diseases...

• cold and sneezing

• broken leg or arms

• typhoid, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy

examples of non-communicable diseases.

• cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s diseases, Down’s syndrome, Kwashiorker

• broken finger and toe

one reason why non-communicable diseases can occur at any time of the year?

• need cold weather to appear

• not seasonal

How are infectious diseases caused?

• washing and drying your hands too much

• Pathogenic microorganisms are the primary cause

Viruses, fungi, and bacteria act as agents/vectors for infection are what?

• how you break your fingers and toes

• how infectious diseases spread

True or False, infectious diseases are hereditary?

• true

• false