Question

What are the different means of transmission of infectious diseases?

Answer 1

Infectious diseases: These are the diseases that are transmitted via various agents from an infected person to a healthy person. they are also called transmittable or communicable diseases. For example, Common cold, chickenpox, scabies, cholera, etc.

The different means of transmission of infectious diseases are as follows:

1. Direct Transmission:

1. Contact with an infected person (Scabies)
2. Animal bites (Rabies)
3. Contact with infected Soil (Tetanus)
4. Droplet infection (Tuberculosis)

2. Indirect Transmission:

1. Vector-borne (Malaria)
2. Food and Waterborne (Typhoid)
3. Airborne (Pneumonia)
4. Fomite-borne (Diarrhea)