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Infections spread by drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food, a major cause of diarrhoea and outbreaks.
Faecal-oral route: water-borne means cholera, typhoid and hepatitis A and E; food-borne means food poisoning; prevent with safe water, sanitation, food hygiene and handwashing.
Communicable Disease: Modes of Transmission
The different ways an infectious agent passes from its source to a new host, which shape how each disease spreads and is prevented.
Vector-Borne Disease Control
The ways of preventing diseases spread by insects and other vectors, by attacking the vector, protecting people, or both.
Disinfection and Sterilisation
Methods that reduce or remove germs from objects and surfaces to prevent the spread of infection.