Distinguish between a non-transmissible disease, a transmissible disease, and an infectious disease, and provide one example of each.
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Non-transmissible diseases cannot be passed from one person to another and are not caused by living organisms. Infectious diseases are caused by living or non living pathogens. Transmissible diseases are infectious diseases that can be passed from person to person.Non-transmissible diseases = many cancers, diabetes, heart disease, asthma.Transmissible diseases = AIDS, flu, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, malaria.Infectious diseases = Influenza, tuberculosis, West Nile virus.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word