Communicable Disease
Communicable Disease can be defined as an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that come about through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected animal, person or reservoir to a susceptible host either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment.
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Key resources
Disease groups - Communicable disease - National key resources
Last review Nov 2009.