What is Communicable Diseases (CDs)?
Communicable diseases are known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases or contagious diseases.
Communicable disease illnesses caused by infection, presence, and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person.
List of Communicable Diseases (CDS)
Communicable Diseases (CDs) are –
- Respiratory Infection
- Small Pox
- Chicken Pox
- Measles
- Influenza
- Rubella
- Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) and Pneumonia
- Diphtheria
- Whooping Cough – Pertussis
- Mumps
- Meningococcal Meningitis
- Tuberculosis
- SARS, COVID-19
- Intestinal Infection
- Poliomyelitis
- Viral Hepatitis A-E
- Cholera
- Diarrhoeal Diseases
- Bacillary Dysentery
- Typhoid Fever
- Amoebiasis
- Hookworm Infection
- Acariasis
- Dracunculiasis- Guinea-Worm Disease (GWD)
- Herpes
- Arthropod Infection
- Dengue
- Malaria
- Filariasis
- Viral
- Rabies
- Yellow Fever
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Kyasanur Forest Disease
- Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)
- Bacterial
- Brucellosis
- Plague
- Human Salmonellosis
- Anthrax
- Leptospirosis
- Rickettsial Diseases
- Rickettsial Zoonosis
- Scrub Typhus
- Murine Typhus
- Tick Typhus
- Q Fever
- Parasitic Zoonoses
- Taeniasis
- Hydatid Disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Surface Infection
- Trachoma
- Tetanus
- Leprosy
- STD and RTI
- Yaws
- HIV/AIDS
- Gas gangrene
What is Non – Communicable Diseases (NCDs)?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are not passed from person to person means diseases that can’t be directly transmitted between people. NCDs also known as chronic diseases. They are of long duration and generally slow progression and may stay with people for life.
List of Non- Communicable Diseases
Non – Communicable Diseases are –
- Malnutrition
A. Under Nutrition
B. Over Nutrition
C. Nutritional Deficiencies
- Anaemia
- Hypertension
- Stroke
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Cancer
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Blindness
- Accidents
- Mental Illness
- Obesity
- Iodine Deficiency
- Fluorsis
- Epilepsy
- Chronic lung disease
