Communicable And Non Communicable Diseases
In addition to the diseases caused due to nutritional imbalance, there are certain other diseases which either spread from one person to the other (communicable) or do not spread so (non communicable). Germs tend to remain in our body when we suffer from diseases and the food substances carry germs when contaminated. However, the medium or environment in which the germs live varies. Diseases can spread from person to person through air (small pox, chicken pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, influenza, etc), through food and water (cholera, typhoid, dysentery, etc) or through insects and animals (malaria, filariasis, dengue, rabies, etc) or through close contact (leprosy, trachoma, gonorrhoea, syphilis, etc). All these fall into the communicable diseases category. Diseases like heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, dental problems, etc do not spread from person to person and fall into the non communicable diseases category
January 09 2010 07:00 am | Health