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What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease? toc** I chose this picture because i said you should stay home if your sick, this person is doing that. :D
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=**AMANDA**= People get sick all the time. Being sick is not a fun thing to be, but there are ways not to get sick. First, you should ALWAYS clean your hands be for you eat. You never know where your hands have been. Then, whenever you sneeze always cover your mouth, either with your hand or elbow. If you sneeze in your hand you should wash them after words or use a tissue. If you are already sick then stay home. Your parents should also stay home with you so they wont carry on the dieses. Avoid shearing drinks and food with people. Even if your not sick. Most of the time people are sick with out knowing it, because the symptoms could take days to develop. By that time not only one person could have the disease but a whole community cold have it too. The best way is to wash your hands regularly. =ELANA= I agree with harschal. You should stay home until you are healthy again unless its an absolute emergency. If we all just washed our hands before and after eating, we could reduce a lot of the foodbourne transmission. If we didn't, the bacteria that were on our hands would go into the food that we ate. If we shared that food there is a good chance of the sickness being passed onto the person sharing. We can all just wash our hands and then everything would be fine. Also, when you realize that the person is sick, stay away from them! It's common sense. Even if they are your friend, hugging them doesn't actually make them any better, there is just a good chance of you getting sick as well. Say that seconds before, your sick friend coughs into his arm. That is a good way to prevent disease spread, but only if that person doesn't touch other people. When you hug the friend, all of the germs jump onto you arm and perhaps even into your mouth, making yourself sick. Avoid physical contact with sick people so that the disease germs wont spread. For the people who are sick, I would tell them to wear mouth masks so that the germs from in your mouth wont get to any other people and cause them to get sick as well. You can even go as far as as wearing gloves to prevent the spread of bacteria. When you wear latex gloves, it traps the bacteria within your hand so that when you take them off, you wash your hand and all that bad bacteria goes down the drain. However, you must remember to dispose of your dirty gloves once used and replace them with new clean ones.

here is my picture of latex gloves. I chose this because wearing latex gloves is a really good way to prevent bacteria spread: []

Joanna: Your example is really good because it in fact does happen a lot and is very common!

=Joanna=

There are countless diseases, and a number of ways to prevent them. there are three ways a disease is transmitted- person to person conatct, airborne and foodborne. To prevent person to person contact disease from spreading, try not to touch a healthy person or go near them. If you MUST be in contact with them, wash your hands before or wear gloves. If preventing an airborne disease, try not to be in the same area as a healthy person so that you don't breathe the same air. Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough with your hands( make sure you wash them after), shoulders or elbows. Really try to not go near anyone because you can't really prevent an airborne disease from happening and you can't immediately kill the disease since there isn't any direct methods of getting rid of it. Also try to wear a mask if you are in a crowded place. If you are trying to prevent a foodborne disease, then don't share food with a sick person. Get rid of your old food/leftovers if the sick person ate it or touched it and get new products. If your in a party or is having a feast with a sick person, try to eat as little as possible and don't use the same utensils. Always check the expiration date and manufacture date when buying food, it isn't always the person that's carrying the illness, food products do too. Always know when, where, what and how the disease started so that you can help try to prevent it!

This is a picture of an expiry date. I chsoe this because it is very important to look at the expiry date before purchasing a food product. []
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=Harschal= There are many things we can do to prevent the spread of disease If you have a disease like chicken pox for example, you should avoid interaction with other humans. If interaction does occur then you will most likely catch the disease. Another disease like the cough is best for you to cover your mouth while coughing so your germs don’t go floating in the air. Last but not least the common cold. If you have the cold it is important to wash your hands after you sneeze. If you don’t then for example; You might open a door and one minute later someone else might come to close the door. The germs from your hand went onto the door and then the germs from the door went on the person that closed the door which will most likely give that person the common cold too. The main point is, if you are sick you should probably stay home until you are healthy again.

I chose my image to be a person washing their hands because that is one of the most important ways to prevent spreading a disease.

Source for picture: http://www.thomas.edu/stuaff/HealthCenter/health%20center%20wash-hands.jpg I am commenting on Joanna's: I like how you mentioned person to person, Airborne, and foodborne, that covers a lot of good info.

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There are are many diseases in our world that can be easily spread, some like the common cold. For example Conjunctivitis or known as "pink eye" or " madras eye", can be caused by a viral or bacteria infection. It can be spread by person-to-person transmission. Doctors recommend staying in doors and try not to touch anyone. For example; If you scratch or touch your eyes then press a button in a elevator, then later that day someone presses that same button and scratches their eyes, then they will catch the disease. You can easily prevent spreading pink eye by not touching stuff then scratch your eyes if you are the one who is in danger to possibly to contract the infection. If you are the host of this infection try to stay in doors and try avoid touching your eyes.

Comments: I am commenting to Byron. I totally agree with Harchal you have covered a lot of ground and put good info in it as well. I am commenting to Harchal. I like how you stated how the common cold can spread very quickly.(Just let you know "Cache-Control: max-Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 oxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 e=0 roxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 oxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0..." was the computer, not me.)

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I chose this picture because I wrote an example of pink eye and how to prevent it. This picture is serious case of pink eye Vrishti: Holy moly...Nice info..but I don't really like the picture. It's too scary!!Hahaha

=Byron= There are plenty of things to do to prevent the spread of disease. We know there are many diseases, but there are lots of ways to avoid getting them, depending on what the disease is. There are three types of transmissions: Airborne, Foodborne, and Person to Person. All of these mean what it sounds. Airborne viruses/bacteria/protists can be contracted by breathing in air, foodborne by eating infected food, and person to person by coming in contact with an infected person or something that they have infected themselves by coming in contact with it. You can prevent breathing in or out bacteria/viruses/protists by wearing a mouth cover, foodborne by refrigerating food, and heating up it when you want to eat it again, and person to person by wearing gloves when you need to be in contact with the infected person, or using a disinfectant to sterilize a surface that the infected person came in contact with. But washing your hands everyday can make a big difference in preventing diseases.

I chose this photo because it is a picture of a mask that can prevent us from breathing in or out harmful substances.

=Julie= A very good way to prevent getting diseases is to just stay away from people that have them! Even if your best friends is sick, don't try to be nice and hang out with her/him anymore, because probably when you get home, you will be feeling sick. Also, if you do have the disease, don't get out of your house that much, avoid going to school, work or even crowded places. You don't want everybody that is close to you to get sick, do you? One of the easiest ways to keep yourself clean is to wash your hands frequently, this is the simplest way but people are even too lazy to do that. You also might want to sneeze into your elbow, that keeps the disease to yourself. This might sound weird, but its better to get you sick that to get everybody around you sick. I agree with Byron that airborne, foodborne and person to person are three major ways that diseases transmit. http://askdrc.missouri.edu/images/sneeze.jpg I choose this picture because it shows people that it is important to cover up when you are sneezing. BACK TO TOP

=Yiying= We should wash our cloths daily. When we go outside to there is always at least one person who is sick. They can give out infectious substance. That substance can float around by the movement of the air, and then it can stick on your cloths. When you breathe around your cloths, you also breathe the harmful substance in which makes you sick.

Taking antibiotic for the time the doctor asks you are also very important. The antibiotic is suppose to kill harmful bacteria in an amount of time. When you only take half the time (the doctor asks you), some of the harmful bacteria will be left alive. It will then grow less sensitive to antibiotics, and will reproduce more. In that case it will become very hard to kill. I agree with Julie. It is good to not get everyone sick, or else the disease will spread to other people faster and to more people. I choose this picture because I have two main points, one is about keeping your clothes clean. This shows a person washing clothes.

=Daniel= There are lots of ways to prevent disease spread, even though it might not stop it absolutely it will definitely slow the disease down. For example, if you clean yourself daily and wash your hands before meals you can stop the pathogen from getting into your bodies. Boiling water first before drinking it is also a way to stop the pathogen that live in the water from getting into you. The disease can either be food borne, airborne, or contact, if you want to stop contact just wash yourself before meals and avoid contact with the ill. If the disease is airborne then you can cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze to stop the spread of disease in the air. If the disease is food borne then don't eat the food that you suspect quality badness. If everybody starts to do these these easy steps then we can avoid disease way easier and live healthier than before.

Comments: I agree with yiying, we should wash our cloths daily to keep clean, but who would breathe into another persons clothes? []

This pic is pretty important because it represents washing your hands and washing hands prevents disease spread. =Vrishti= I agree to what Daniel just said. You need to wash your hands before you eat in order to get rid of the bacteria on your dirty hands. There are many other measures that we can do to prevent the spread of disease. Have you ever gone out from class...you are STARVING...forgot to wash your hands! Think about this: You've been using your pencil, erasing mistakes with your dirty eraser, touching the desk, playing with your hair. Ewww! Imagine all the bacteria on your hands! You're on your way to the salad bar...you took a plate and grabbed a spoon. Your spoon isn't good enough! You put that spoon back and grabbed another one. *Hello? The nasty stuff on your hands just travelled to the spoon you dropped. It'll soon spread to other spoons. There are other people lining up for salad. Then you grabbed the ladle to get some carrots, grabbed another one for lettuce, and for spinach. Other people will use the SAME ladle that you just used to get their salad. It's extremely important to wash you hands with a drop of soap. When you sneeze it's also very important to cover your nose. If you don't...the viruses and bacteria will infect the tiny droplets that other people will inhale and will soon make them sick. Again...WASH your hands after you sneeze...or after picking your nose. People take a shower to remove the nasty bacteria and viruses on their body… and to smell good. If you don't take a shower, bacteria or viruses from your hands, face, or hair will travel to anyone around you...just by touching, hugging, or shaking hands with them. You can also prevent the spread of disease by not sharing food or eating utensils with friends. When you share eating utensils, you are transferring the bacteria and viruses from your mouth to others mouth. Keep in mind that these gruesome, tiny organisms are everywhere! http://moodle.ccm.ac.uk/blogs/mojtaba/wp-content/blogs.dir/87/files//2009/01/hand_washing.jpg I chose this picture because washing your hands is one of the ways that you could prevent the spread of disease.

=Karen=

Sometimes, we spread our diseases and we don't even know it! For example, have you ever been sick during class, got up, grabbed a tissue, blew your nose on it, and put on your desk to throw away later? You might not even realize, but other people might be able to catch a disease like that. How? Simple. The germs in the tissue sooner or later get blown into the air, and if someone else breathes it in, BINGO! disease transmitted. That's why you should throw out tissues you have used into the garbage. This is the same for spitting. When the spit touches the ground, the wind blows the germs up into the air, and someone else breathes it in. DON'T SPIT! It's also a good idea to not share drinks when you're sick, and make sure you always wash your hands before and after you eat.

I just read Vrishti's response, and I think the example with the salad was really good. There are TONS of ways diseases can be spread.

Here is my picture. It basically shows that there are other people out there who don't appreciate spitting or whatnot, and not only me. =D It's also a way you can develop good hygene as well as benefiting others! (Well maybe not benefitting but not harming either.)

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=TIFFANY. (:= EQ#3. Personally, I remember to wash my hands many times a day at home. At school, I tend to forget. I only rinse it in the water and rub my fingers awhile, but at home, I rub against my skin and actually try to clean my hands. Simply rinsing your hands with water doesn't rid the pathogens on you. You could try using antibacterial handsoap to get them off too. Diseases can spread easily without you even knowing it. Infact, you can't tell when exactly the disease has jumped to another human and started invading it. It all happens over time. It is important to constantly wash your hands to get rid of all the pathogens you touched. Remember, they are everywhere. If someone is sick, what is your first reaction? Of course you would stay a distance away from them, unless you want to get sick to miss school. :) When people are sick, don't share the same utencils and food as them! Utencils include forks, knives, spoons, bowls, cups, plates, etc. If you do, you might catch the disease, too! Or in this case, the disease might catch you. :)
 * What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?**



Picture: I chose this picture because it simply shows that the baby is clean and you should always use soap. []
 * COMMENTS**: I just read Karen's response, and it made a lot of sense because she provided many examples to prove what she has to say. Good job, Karen! I think it's really good. :)

=Galahad= I agree with Vrishti that you need to wash your hand. When i starve and it is lunch time I open my locker as fast as i could and get my lunch card and walk d\fast to the cafeteria. I buy my food and eat and some time it is hand food like burger or sandwich. A lot of the time I like to sneeze sometime cough in class and make everyone freak out. At those times I don’t cover my nose and my mouth. But after a what I learn in science. I learn that disease could be in my food or i use my dirty hands to grab the food and put it in my mouth. I also learn that it is necessary to cover my mouth or nose. Bacteria and virus come out and when other people breath it in they will get sick. So i will wash my hand every day when i go to lunch. i would also cover my mouth and nose when i sneeze. This is from www.cartoonstock.com

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I agree with Galahad and Vrishti about washing my hand in fact that is one of the measures I take. What measures I take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease is by washing my hands, clean with disinfectant, and by spraying my self with mosquito repellent. Why I spray my self with mosquito repellent is so that I don't get bit by one. In fact mosquito's are one of the ways malaria and other diseases get transferred. A mosquito bites an infected person and then the mosquito becomes infected, then it bites another person making that person become infected with the disease and so on. So to prevent this, before I go outside in the summer time, when there are mosquito's galore, I spray my self with the mosquito repellent. The mosquito repellent repels mosquitoes so they won't bite you.

-this picture shows you what would happen if you went outside without spraying yourself with mosquito repellent. =Teddy:= I agree with Cassie about the mosquito part, they are a definite, annoying reason of catching some pretty nasty and deadly diseases, like the dengu fever. What I do against that, I pretty much just spray myself with mosquito repellent, since I personally find them quite effective, and I try to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans or trousers outdoors whenever the weather doesn't seem too unbearably hot. Some other precautions I take: I wash my hands before meals and whenever I feels like my hands are dirty. This is a really effective way of keeping off germs when they're most likely to get on you, like when you eat, as probably mentioned above, a lot of times. I tend to cover my mouth and nose when I cough and sneeze, since I was taught to do so since I was a very young boy. I mean, I don't hate everyone in the class THAT much that I would spread my germs to them and make them stay home for a week. [] My pictures shows a very refreshing picture of a person washing his or her hands with water. Now, this is very good indeed, but to perfect the deal, you've got to use soap. I guess this person used soap already, and is washing it off?

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