Question

Question: Which communicable (infectious) disease problems are reported most frequently? What is the rarest? Look for Influenza-like Illness Reports/Weekly Flu Activity Reports and describe what you found. What surprised you? It may look like just numbers but, in healthcare, we watch, especially the flu reporting!

Answer 1

Answer 1. There are many communicable or infectious diseases that can be spread or easily transmitted to other persons, like:-

. Tuberculosis, Covid-19, Influenza flu, Hepatitis, Common cold, STDs, Rabies, Ebola, etc.

Answer 2. The rare communicable diseases are :-

. African sleeping sickness, African tick bite fever, Chagas disease, etc.

Answer 3. According to the reports, the shocking information came into notice is that in start of this year only, 19 million cases of Influenza were reported which is a great increase of about 4 million cases since the last report was declared.