What are the infectious disease??.,.,
Is hepatitis B one of it?.,.,
Infectious disease and contageous.,.,same or not??
2007-06-23 22:00:55 · 3 answers · asked by Emmanuel 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Hepatitis B IS infectious, but not contagious. Contagious means that the disease/bacteria can be contracted by simply coming into contact with someone/something that is infected. For instance, Tuberculosis is contagious...all you have to do is breathe the air around someone infected.
Infectious means that a disease is contracted by the sharing of infected needles, unprotected sex, and coming into contact with infected body fluid. Basically, with an infectious disease, the virus/bacteria has to actually get into the body by means of behavior, accident, etc. Hope this answers your question.
2007-06-23 22:10:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sammy is wrong, Hepatitis A is curable, B & C are usually not. They are an illness
that effects the liver. Type A is from people who get e-coli on their hands from wiping their butt and not washing their hands. They have it and go out and serve or prepare food and that is how it is passed around. It can make you very sick but won't kill you. There is a vaccine for A, a set of 3 for type B and
none for type C. These are all passed by sex, body fluids and needle use by more then one person.
2014-10-17 16:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Retired R.N. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't get rid of hep A, B, or C. But things that are contagious will usually go away unless its a STD...
2007-06-23 22:09:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋