The 2008 measles outbreaks demonstrated the risk for transmission of communicable diseases by travelers returning to the United States and by visitors and temporary residents visiting communities where clusters of people have suboptimal vaccine coverage (Map 2 in the Technical Appendix).
The displacement of communicable diseases by NCDs as the leading cause of death provides evidence of the region's epidemiological transition (Frenk et al. 1994).
As another example, with the emergence of new diseases that resist existing treatments, information sharing could leverage big data from wearable devices to help identify the outbreak of a communicable illness by tracking body temperatures and geolocation in real time.
Bond stated in her divorce petition that she had been knowingly infected with a communicable disease by her husband.
As a reminder, health officials said that people can protect themselves from communicable diseases by washing their hands often with soap and water, or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water aren't available.
Many countries (e.g. India, Brazil and China) have addressed communicable diseases by developing robust biotechnology industries [ 47, 48].
In the case of infant and childhood conditions and communicable diseases, by contrast, the incidence component is more important.
We propose a multiplicative hazard regression model to analyze the risk of acquiring a communicable disease by patients at hospital.
