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What are Communicable Diseases?

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There are hundreds and thousands of communicable diseases that affect children in life each and every day. Some disease are deadly and some are not. Some of them have been slowed down or controlled by vaccines and modern technology. Although some are being controlled others resist drug treatments. Theses are the types of diseases that become difficult to cure and can kill a child. It is difficult to prevent children from catching the spread of communicable diseases because of how easily some are able to spread, because it is just part of our everyday life and because children are always around objects and things that are highly contagious. For example in daycare or schools, they have toys and crayons and other objects that are always being touched by other children. In playgrounds there are pathogens everywhere. Pathogens is another term for germs. A communicable disease is a disease that is transmitted by the contact of person to person or animal to person. Communicable disease are spread by contact with an infected person or object ,oral transmission, pathogens in the air, when many people with a communicable disease are among the same area, bites from insects and not in the case of children, sexual intercourse. Pathogens that can cause communicable diseases are viruses, bacteria, fungi, Protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins. Bacteria is a one- celled germs that multiply quickly and may release chemicals which can make you sick. A virus is capsules that contain genetic material, and use your own cells to multiply. A fungi is a primitive plants, like mushrooms or milde. A protozoa is a one-celled animals that use other living things for food and a place to live. When a child becomes sick with a communicable dis...

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