First Year

• A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible from one person to another.  

(It cannot be spread from person to person.) examples are as follows:

Malaria, Cancer, Epilepsy,Diabetes,...

• A communicable disease is one that is spread from one person to another through a variety of ways that include: contact with blood and bodily fluids; breathing in an airborne virus; or by being bitten by an insect.Examples of communicable diseases are as follows: Influenza,

  Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Monkey pox ,...