Health 3rd QE

• Communicable diseases - Transmitted from one person to another, either directly or indirectly.
• Vectors - Living organisms, usually blood-feeding insects, that transmit disease from one person to another or from an animal to a human.
• Incubation, prodrome, acute disease, and convalescence - Four stages of infection
• Respiratory infections - Most common communicable diseases in the Philippines
• Dengue, and Malaria - Two common vector-borne diseases
• Aedes Aegypti - Mosquito that transmits Dengue
• Anopheles species - Mosquito that transmits malaria
• Pathogen - Living organism that can cause disease
• Morbidity - State of being diseased or unhealthy
• Upper Respiratory Tract Infection, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, and Influenza - Respiratory Illnesses
• Acute Gastroenteritis, Amebiasis, Salmonellosis, and Shigellosis - Diarrheal Illnesses
• Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and HIV - Sexually-Transmitted Infections