A main difference between a person contracting an infectious disease and a chronic disease is:
a. infectious diseases are not related to the nutritional status of a person.
b. some infectious diseases can be cured with medications but chronic diseases cannot.
c. special immune-strengthening foods can prevent infectious diseases

d. people in developed countries will not get infectious diseases because of existing safeguards.
e. infectious diseases arise not from a straightforward cause but from a mixture of factors.


b

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