How to Prevent the spread of infectious diseases

PREVENTION MEASURES:

-prevention measures to avoid infectious diseases are

(1) Maintainance of personal and public hygiene is important. 

(2) personal hygiene includes keeping the body 

clean, consumption of clean drinking water, food, vegetables, fruits, etc.

(3) public hygiene includes proper disposal of 

waste, excreta, periodic cleaning and disinfection 

of water reservoirs, pools, cesspools and tanks.

(4) Eradication of vectors and destroying their 

breeding sites, can prevent those diseases which 

require vectors for their transmission, such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya and filariasis, etc. 

(5) in order to kill the vectors, natural predators 

can also be used, e.g.Gambusia fish feed on mosquito larvae. 

(6) Mosquito nets, repellents, etc. Should be used. 

(7) Vaccination and immunisation programmes 

for diseases should be strictly followed, e.g.in small pox, polio, diptheria. 

(8) Use of antibiotics and other drugs can significantly keep away infectious diseases.