- Is an infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual’s discharges or by indirect.
- Infection is the invasion of a host organism’s bodily tissues by disease-causing organisms, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce.
- Communicable diseases comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism.
List of Communicable diseases
- Hantavirus
- HIV/AIDS
- MRSA
- Measles
- Pertussis
- Rabies
- Flu
- Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Tuberculosis
- West Nile Virus