preventing disease

• there are 4 ways of preventing the spread of disease: being hygenic, destroying vectors, isolating infected individuals and vaccination
• using simple hygiene measures can prevent the spread of disease
• doing things like washing your hands thoroughly before preparing food or after you've sneezed can stop you from infecting another person
• by destroying vectors, you can prevent the disease from being passed on
• vectors that are insects can be killed using insecticides or by destroying their habitat so they can no longer breed
• if you isolate someone who has a communicable disease, it prevents them from passing it on to someone else
• vaccinating people and animals against communicable diseases, means that they cannot develop the infection and then pass it on to someone else