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Communicable Disease - Coggle Diagram
Communicable Disease
steps in pandemic prevention framework
mitigating: aims to reduce transmission often by quarantining
immunizing: immunity can be acquired by passive immunity, vaccination, or active infection
containing: isolate initial case through contact tracing
detecting: identifying initial case called index case
monitoring: ongoing surveillance for new and mutated cases
communicable diseases are diseases that are transmitted from person to person or from the environment/animals to people
are of primary importance to public health
used to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality until vaccines were introduced
can cause epidemics and endemics and pandemics
tools available to public health to address communicable diseases:
screening and contact tracing
immunizations
barrier protections (isolation and quarantine)
antibiotic and antiviral treatment
elimination or eradication
modern koches postulates help determine if a specific pathogen is the cause of a communicable disease
postulates:
Individual association btw presence of the pathogen and presence of disease in humans
Isolation of the pathogen through culturing the genetic sequence of the pathogen in most/all of those infected
Transmission of the identical pathogen to another individual who develops the same disease
some examples of vaccine preventable diseases in children include: whooping cough, hepatitis B, HIB, mumps, measles, covid-19, polio, chicken pox ect.