Sentence examples for as communicable from inspiring English sources

Anthrax itself may not be contagious, as health officials are pleading with Floridians to believe, but the fear of such an exotic, deadly disease is as communicable as chickenpox.

Although cholera is not as communicable as some other diseases, keeping those suffering from the disease from contact with the general public will reduce the chance of spread.

Since this transition, the prevention of non-communicable disease as well as communicable disease causes of adolescent mortality has risen in importance.

Ngaruiya says that in societies today the dangers posed by NCDs are often overlooked or not considered as great a priority as communicable diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, or the flu, which typically get more attention from policy makers, public health officials, and the general public.

UN projections show that by 2030, non-communicable diseases will cause five times as many deaths as communicable diseases worldwide [1, 2].

EM care delivery systems are specifically focused on managing the acute consequences of non-communicable as well as communicable disease processes, and therefore represent an important public health tool for reducing the present and future global disease burden, similar to the effect that immunization programs and other public health initiatives have had on communicable disease in the past [3].

Secondly, pre-existing diseases and drug therapy can substantially influence mortality from communicable as well as non-communicable diseases such as CVD and we have no data on them.

India, through sheer numbers, bears a large part of the global disease burden for communicable as well as non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (5, 6).

In his great 1960s films, "L'Avventura," "La Notte," "Eclipse" and "Red Desert," but especially in "L'Avventura," his masterpiece, it wasn't diagnosed as a chemical imbalance, but as a communicable social disease.

Chronic diseases are often referred to as 'non communicable diseases' to distinguish them from communicable diseases and as 'diseases of lifestyle' to distinguish them from diseases with environmental causes.

Under the ban, United States health authorities have been required to list H.I.V. infection as a "communicable disease of public health significance".