COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Communicable diseases are illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria that

people spread to one another through contact with contaminated surfaces,
bodily fluids, blood products, insect bites, or through the air
 Examples of communicable diseases
• Mumps. • Malaria
• Pertussis. (whooping cough) • Corona virus
• Tuberculosis. • Measles
• Viral Hepatitis. • Chicken pox
• West Nile Virus (mosquitoes spread) • Influenza
• Ebola • Shigellosis
• Marburg
 Shigellosis

• Shigella infection (shigellosis) is an

intestinal infection caused by a family
of bacteria known as shigella.
Causes (mode of transmission)
• Shigella is found in the stool
(feces) of infected people, in
food or water contaminated by
an infected person, and on
surfaces that have been touched
by infected people. Shigellosis
often occurs in toddlers who are
not fully toilet-trained.
signs and symptoms
• The main symptom of dysentery is
frequent near-liquid diarrhea flecked
with blood, mucus, or pus.
• sudden onset of high fever (at least
100.4°F or 38°C) and chills.
• abdominal pain.
• cramps and bloating.
• flatulence (passing gas)
• urgency to pass stool.
• feeling of incomplete emptying.
• loss of appetite.
 General signs and symptoms
• WHO now recommends that • Take plenty of oral fluids
clinically diagnosed cases of • Administer intravenous fluids
Shigella dysentery be treated
with ciprofloxacin as first line
treatment
• Amoebic Dysentery is usually
treated with drugs such as
metronidazole and tinidazole
that are made to kill parasites