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Global Patterns of Disease

Disease Dilemmas: Types of Disease

Module by Antonia Blankenberg, updated more than 1 year ago

Description

When we think of disease, we tend to think of the viral kind that spreads in a population from person to person. Diseases can be infectious and communicable, contagious, non-contagious and zoonotic among others.