A 45-year-old member asked:
can you tell me about the relation between communicable diseases and human beings ?
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Dr. Alvin Lin answered
Geriatrics 30 years experience
Communicable disease: By definition, communicable diseases require communication or contact between human beings for transmission. Classic examples are influenza & sexually transmitted diseases/infections. So are ship-board diarrheal illnesses. But cellulitis or skin/tissue infection isn't considered communicable. There's also interspecies transmission such as bird flu & rabies which are communicable from animal to hum
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