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Fighting Disease:
Health At The End Of The Millennium
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Unit 3
Transmission of Infectious Diseases

OBJECTIVES

  • Discuss the means by which infectious diseases are transmitted
  • Give some examples of diseases and their means of transmission
  • Present the conditions which are currently contributing to the spread of infectious diseases
  • Discuss the global outlook for diseases based on means of transmission




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