Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 16

Define and distinguish among an infectious disease , a transmissible disease , and a nontransmissible disease , and give an example of each. Describe five possible pathways for infectious diseases. Distinguish between an epidemic and a pandemic of an infectious disease. Describe the causes and possible solutions for the increasing genetic resistance in microbes to commonly used antibiotics.