Compare and contrast direct and indirect transmission in infectious disease.
What will be an ideal response?
Infectious disease can be transmitted through direct contact from person to person or indirectly through a material that becomes contaminated with a pathogen by one person and is then touched or ingested by another. Examples of infectious disease that is directly transmitted include sexually transmitted diseases. The common cold can be transmitted directly or indirectly.
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The suffix that means eating, swallowing is ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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A) infection B) bleeding C) deficiency D) the blood
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A. 4 B. 1 C. 3 D. 2