Disease Transmission

Diseases can be classified into communicable and non-communicable diseases. Some examples of non-communicable diseases are hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and sroke. Some examples of communicable diaseases are cholera, tuberculosis, hepatitis, diptheria, anthrax an dmany more. Disease agents has to get into the body inorder to cause disease. The portals of entry are damaged skin, through the mouth, airway, urethra, skin pores, mucosa of the eyes and nose. Some can penetrate intact skin like schistosomiasis while other are through the bites of insect vectors like malaria and dengue. To keep ourself healthy we need to guard these portals of entry. Clean skin, clean air, food and water. It is a must that we live in a clean environment. No dust, smoke, damp, or insect breeding places. We are the only person who can clean our own surrounding or we have to pay other people to keep our surrounding clean. We inahale 16 to 20 times per minute and each inhalation carries a risk of infection from airborne microorganism. This is the reason why there are more respiratory tract diseases than diarrheas or urinary tract infections. We only take water or liquids 8 to 12 times a day and food 3 to 5 times a day. The risk increasesa as we increase our expossure to the disease carrying materials like air, food or water. keeping these three (air, food and water) is good enough to keep as ree from diseases carried by them. it is therefore necessary that we have to keep pur surrounding clean at all times. This message is very much applicable in the Philippine setting where there is overpopulation and the climate is conducive to proliferation od bacteria.