What is communicable disease

communicable disease is an illness caused by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products

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A communicable disease (or CD) is infectious and is transmissible through direct contact with an infected person, that person’s bodily fluids, or through indirect contact (such as touching a surface the infected person has touched).

http://www.ehow.com/about_5376379_list-diseases-watch-out-childcare.html

common cold

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If a disease is communicable, how does the first person get it ?

Q: A doctor once told me that the first person to get a communicable disease, gets it from the air. Thereafter, ( and this is my theory ) that person transmits the disease to another person or persons and he or they in turn transmit it to others which can have a multiplier and even an exponential effect and before you know it, millions of people can become infected. Was the doctor correct ?

A: the doctor was partially right, for some viruses. many diseases we get from mutations in bacteria or viruses, from animals, from food, from a new environment we aren’t used to, etc.p.s. Any expert can tell you exactly how to contract the bubonic plague (often called the black death, the black plague, the plague, etc.) that wiped out 1/4 of Europe in its time. People got it from fleas. It is often associated with rats because rats carry fleas, and therefore the plague. When the flea bit an infected person, and then someone else the other person got infected, as did anything else the flea bit. And with the poor sanitation a few hundred years ago, and their total lack of knowledge as to what caused it, it is no wonder the plague wiped out entire towns.

Is a police officer legally required to give CPR to a person with a serious communicable disease?

Q: If a sworn police officer knows or has reason to believe that a physically distressed person in need of CPR has a serious communicable disease such as HIV or Tuberculosis, are they LEGALLY REQUIRED to administer CPR?Please state the source for your answer. Please no one word yes or no answers. Thanks.I know the answer varies jurisdiction to jurisdiction and state to state. The state I am referring to is Illinois.

A: No police officers are not required to do anything more that request ambulance/paramedics.Police officers and paramedics are protected from lawsuits and scummy lawyers by their state’s version of the GOOD SAMARITAN ACT.I’d post YOUR STATE’S law but you have not indicated which state you are referring to but here is an example:When any doctor of medicine or dentistry, nurse, member of any organized rescue squad, member of any police or fire department, member of any organized volunteer fire department, emergency medical technician, intern or resident practicing in a hospital with training programs approved by the American Medical Association, state trooper, medical aidman functioning as a part of the military assistance to safety and traffic program, chiropractor, or public education employee gratuitously and in good faith, renders first aid or emergency care at the scene of an accident, casualty, or disaster to a person injured therein, he or she shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of his or her acts or omissions in rendering first aid or emergency care, nor shall he or she be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the injured person.Catch the part starting “….or omissions in rendering first aid…..”Check that out specifically, there Johnnie Cochran, Jr.EDIT:Ok, here you are: (745 ILCS 49/70) Sec. 70. Law enforcement officers, firemen, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and First Responders; exemption from civil liability for emergency care. Any law enforcement officer or fireman as defined in Section 2 of the Line of Duty Compensation Act, any “emergency medical technician (EMT)” as defined in Section 3.50 of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, and any “first responder” as defined in Section 3.60 of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, who in good faith provides emergency care without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a result of his or her acts or omissions, except willful and wanton misconduct on the part of the person, in providing the care, be liable to a person to whom such care is provided for civil damages.(Source: P.A. 93‑1047, eff. 10‑18‑04; 94‑826, eff. 1‑1‑07.)Link below

Communicable disease law; does a person have to contact previous partners?

Q: First and foremost, I do not have a communicable disease. However, I found recently that someone I had been with previously does currently have one. His girlfriend found a rather snarky and accusitory way to pass this information on to me. If he has a communicable disease, I thought he was required by law to telephone me or otherwise tell me himself. Does anyone know more about this? As I stated previously, I AM CLEAN, so you don’t need to reccomend I get tested or anything. I’ve done my part, I just want to know the legal side of this.

A: Depending on the state in which you live, HIV and certain other STDs are reported to the health department by medical staff. Doctors are ethically bound to urge a patient to inform their spouse/partner of the disease, as well as anyone they’ve been in contact with in the past. If that doesn’t work, in certain cases we can break confidentiality and contact the current partner. Medical workers aren’t able to contact past or future sexual partners though, and the infected person is under no legal obligation to do it either. Although you would think out of simple kindness he would. You might want to ask this question over in legal, because if you’ve had to go through much expense getting tested, etc. you may have a small claims case against the guy. It also depends a lot on what disease we’re talking about. If it’s herpes 2 or genital warts, well something like 95% of the US population will get one of these at some point in their lives anyway. But you’re clean, and if the girlfriend thinks you gave him (and presumably her) an STD who cares? Tell them their rotting genitals are perfect for one another and forget about it. And just to address the condescending jerk who apparently slept through 9th grade biology, according to Stedmans online medical dictionary communicable means, “Capable of being communicated or transmitted; said especially of disease.” From a public health standpoint they are not considered communicable diseases like TB, but technically they very much are. Also STD is an anachronistic acronym, and we now know that many of the diseases popularly placed in this category can be spread by dozens of other ways. The most common is of course sexual penetration, but depending on the disease anything from breast milk to mucus can be infective given proper exposure. Mmmkay pumpkin?