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Disease
Disease Prevention
Better sanitation and safer processing of food and water have improved the length and quality of human lives.
Medicines, such as antibiotics, have been developed to fight bacterial infections like strep throat.
Aseptic techniques, such as washing hands, sterilizing equipment, and using disinfectants to clean homes, have reduced the spread of many diseases and led to safer medical practices.
Vaccinations using weak or inactive strains of viruses strengthen the body's immune system against many serious infections, like measles.
Disease Vectors
Sometimes, a vector is not harmed or killed by the disease it carries. These vectors are especially dangerous because they are able to spread the disease to many other organisms.
For example, the western blacklegged tick is a vector that carries Lyme disease. However, the bacterium that causes Lyme does not harm the tick that carries it.
Rats, ticks, and mosquitoes are examples of vectors.
A disease vector is any organism that can spread the infectious disease to another organism through bites, scratches, body fluids, or other contacts.
What You Should Do
Keep Clean
Be aware of what you eat, and prepare foods carefully.
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Wash your hands often, especially during cold and flu season (usually during the winter time).
Wash dishes, clothes/towels with hot water & often.
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