Question
List the measures for preventing infectious diseases.
Solution
Preventive measures of infectious diseases are -:
(i) We can prevent exposure to air borne diseases i.e., providing living conditions that are not overcrowed.
(ii) We can prevent exposure to water borne microbes by providing safe drinking water free from contamination.
(iii) We can presvent vector-borne infections, by providing clean environment that is abolishing breeding places of mosquitoes and flies.
(iv) Avoid contact in case of disease like measles and chichken pox. Avoiding close physical contact in case of diseases like AIDS.
(v) By making the body immune system strong by having proper and sufficient nourshing food.
