What are the various public health measures, which you would suggest as safeguard against infectious diseases?
The measures that should be taken as safeguard against infectious diseases are:
(i) Proper disposal and treatment of sewage and excreta.
(ii) Periodic inspection and cleaning of the public water resources.
(iii) Vaccination to provide protection to the body from communicable.
(iv) Personal hygiene – Maintaining a clean body, consumption of healthy and nutritious food, drinking clean water, etc.
(v) Isolation and proper treatment of the infected persons to prevent the spread of disease.
(vi) Eliminating breeding grounds of the vectors of the infectious diseases.
In which way has the study of biology helped us to control infectious diseases?
What measure would you take to prevent water-borne diseases?
Discuss with your teacher what does ‘a suitable gene’ means, in the context of DNA vaccines.
