Category: Common Source

While vaccinations are an important part of modern medicine, a disease can spread otherwise. Understanding how diseases spread is an important aspect of preventing sickness in your community. Some diseases cannot be transferred via a common source, but most can; the...

A “common source” of disease is a source that causes more than one person in a household to become ill. There are four common sources of disease control: waterborne (spread by drinking water), foodborne (diseases from eating contaminated food), contact transmission,...