Communicable in a sentence

Many countries in Africa are already experiencing a 'double burden' of disease, characterised by high rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

The agents of communicable diseases are invaders; non-communicable diseases constitute internal insurrection or civil war.

The centre facilitates the exchange of information and expertise on surveillance; prevention and control of, and research on, communicable and non-communicable diseases; and on bioterrorism concerns.

But the court noted that ITT itself admitted that such measures served to “mitigate communicable disease spread,” not repair damaged property.

Demand for the services is expected to grow as the burden of non-communicable diseases rises globally, says the document.

Diabetes, high cholesterol and other non-communicable diseases are common.

Five years later, he went on to head the Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) at Tondiarpet.

In 2021, obesity was responsible for 2.8 million deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas.

In Nigeria, a country with over 200 million people, stroke was the second leading cause of death and disability from a non-communicable disease.

It’s the second most communicable affliction next to the cold in children.

It strikes me that the best attorneys are avoiding him like a communicable disease.

It then goes to say that if hand hygiene reduces the transmission of communicable diseases, absence of hand hygiene practice in public places like schools, workplaces, homes, markets and hospitals remains a public health challenge.

Over the past 3 decades, non-communicable diseases have become the leading cause of death and suffering, contributing to 65 per cent of deaths in India," said Dr Prathap Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, in a statement.

Preventing possible outbreaks of communicable diseases in the coming days will be challenging, as people are forced to live in the open amid growing chill, Krishna Bahadur Khatri, information officer at the Health Office Jajarkot.

The JCF said the high rate of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, also contribute to feelings of hopelessness and depression.

There is also a growing consensus for making breast and cervical cancer a notifiable disease — such as tuberculosis and other non-communicable disease.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently conducted a five-day national coordination team training in Harare, Zimbabwe, to address the growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the country and across the continent.

At the same time, patient organizations — non-profit entities established to address the needs of patients — across the continent are helping their communities affected both by infectious and non-communicable diseases.

British Columbia’s Public Health Act provides a framework for managing current and emerging public-health issues, including communicable disease prevention and control, health promotion and protection.

Communicable illnesses can spread among the gathered masses, many of whom save their entire lives for the pilgrimage and can be elderly with preexisting health conditions, it said.