Give one example for each type of communicable disease spread.

direct person-to-person contact

through animals

by contaminated materials

The spread of diseases from one person to another through the different ways such as contact with bodily fluid or blood, bitten by insect or breathing in an airborne virus is known as communicable diseases.

Direct person-to-person contact: (gonorrhea, HIV, hepatitis A

Through animals: malaria and yellow fever, plague

By contaminated materials: hepatitis B, Norwalk virus