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level: Reducing and Preventing the Spread of Disease

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level questions: Reducing and Preventing the Spread of Disease

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Why, if its more Densely Populated, can there be more Cases of Communicable Diseases?-More People in the Same Space means more Crowded, so Pathogens can Easily be Passed from 1 to Another [Air]
Why can Poor Diet increase Diseases?-The Immune System will be Damaged as the Nutrients isn't Correct [Diseases that wasn't a Problem may be one]
Why can Healthcare and Education reduce Diseases?-Healthcare can lead to People being Treated right, to get Better and even Immune Against it in a Safe Way -Education will give People Knowledge on how Diseases can be Spread, like HIV through Sex [Safe Sex]
How can: 1. Being Hygienic 2. Destroying Vectors 3. Isolating Infected People 4. Vaccination 5. Early Detection? Lower the Chance of Disease?1. Just making yourself Clean, like Washing your Hands will Lower the Spread of Disease [Soap can kill Pathogens, like Coronavirus] 2. If the Organism that is Spreading the Disease Dead, then the Disease won't be Passed Along. [Insects can be Dealt with using Insecticides or Destroying their Habitat] 3. If Infected People are Isolated from Healthy People, then the Cases won't go Up [Lockdown and Quarantine] 4. If People are Immune to the Disease, then it won't be Developed and therefore be Allowed to Pass Along - Its Dead 5. If the Disease is Detected, then you can put Restrictions on Earlier, Reducing the Number of Cases
Why is it Important that Plants do not get Infected?-They give out an Important Food Source, and also control the Biodiversity of Ecosystems [Food Webs] -All Plants Die = Humanity Collapses
How can: 1. Regulating Movement of Plant Material 2. Destroying the Infected Plants 3. Crop Rotation 4. Chemical Control 5. Biological Control Lower the Chances of Disease?1. One way that Pathogens Spread is by Contact. If you can Control the Infected Plants Movement, it can't Spread its Disease 2. Destroying them means no more Hub of Disease 3. Pathogens, usually, are Specific to a Plant. If you change the Crop, then that Pathogen will not be Established 4. Fungicides can kill Pathogens that have Fungi Involved. Pesticides can remove Pests that Insert the Disease in 5. Crown Gall Disease can be Stopped from Dipping the Plant's Roots into a Suspension of a Similar Bacterium, then Planted in the Infected Soil. Seems Stupid, but that Bacteria gives it Immunity [Antibodies]