What is control of infectious diseases?
Infectious disease is a disease caused by the presence of pathogen. The pathogen can be bacteria, parasite, virus, fungi, protozoa or prion, and the nature of the disease is such that it can be transmitted or communicated from one person, animal or species, another way. Control of infectious diseases is an attempt to reduce the spread of infectious diseases, sometimes called portable or portable diseases. Infectious diseases may pass from one individual to another through air inhalation, body fluids or by means of objects, food or liquids that have been contaminated. Other infectious diseases have specialized transmission paths. For example, the parasite that causes malaria is transmitted from man to a person infected with a mosquito, which injures that the parasite of malaria into a human blood bite. Thus, while humans infectious diseases can be checked by measures such as hand washing and general hygiene, others such as malaria require specialized methods to eradicate the possibility of transmission - in this ponIt focuses on the population of mosquitoes and the use of antimalarial drugs before and during visits to the infested area.
Another aspect of control of infectious diseases is to maintain a healthy population that is not susceptible to disease. This may ensure that factors such as stress, poor nutrition, contaminated water and poor hygiene are solved. Another way to reduce sensitivity.
Control of infectious diseases is supervised worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO) in conjunction with a number of national agencies. In the United States, the efforts to reduce the spread of the infectious disease began in 1946 by the Center for Portable Diseases, which grew out of the Malaria control agency that existed during World War II. Today is his descendant, the Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC), a medical organization that focuses on controlling infectious diseases in the United States, and also on partnErsion with other national organizations in order to control international disease transmission. In Sweden, the Swedish Institute for Control of Infectious Diseases (SMI) is a government agency that monitors infectious diseases between people and promotes preventive measures to prevent their grip.
In the case of other species, a national organization that protects people can provide instructions for veterinarians and other animal care providers as well as CDC. This is important because infectious diseases in any species do not exist in isolation. In addition, there may be organizations that have taken over the role of infectious diseases of the disease for specific species. For example, the US AAP -providers' Association (AAEP) supports instructions for controlling infectious diseases between horses.