List of Communicable (CDS) and Non- Communicable (NCDs) Diseases

What Are Common Communicable Diseases (CDs)?

 

Communicable diseases, also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases or contagious diseases.

Communicable diseases, illnesses caused by infection, presence, and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person.

Communicable Diseases (CDs) Includes -

 

1. Respiratory Infection

1. Small Pox

2. Chicken Pox

3. Measles

4. Influenza

5. Rubella

6. Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI)  and Pneumonia

7. Diphtheria

8. Whooping Cough - Pertussis

9.  Mumps

10. Meningococcal Meningitis

11. Tuberculosis

12. SARS, COVID-19

 

2. Intestinal Infection

 1. Poliomyelitis

2. Viral Hepatitis A-E

3. Cholera

4. Diarrhoeal Diseases

5. Bacillary Dysentery

6. Typhoid Fever

7. Amoebiasis

8. Hookworm Infection

9. Acariasis

10. Dracunculiasis- Guinea-Worm Disease (GWD)

11. Herpes

 

3. Arthropod Infection

 1. Dengue

2. Malaria

3. Filariasis

 

4. Viral      

 1. Rabies

2. Yellow Fever

3. Japanese Encephalitis

4. Kyasanur Forest Disease

5. Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)

 

5. Bacterial

 1. Brucellosis

2. Plague

3. Human Salmonellosis

4. Anthrax

5. Leptospirosis

 

6. Rickettsial Diseases

 1. Rickettsial Zoonosis

2. Scrub Typhus

3. Murine Typhus

4. Tick Typhus

5. Q Fever

 

7. Parasitic Zoonoses

 1. Taeniasis

2. Hydatid Disease

3. Leishmaniasis 

 

8. Surface Infection

 1. Trachoma

2. Tetanus

3. Leprosy

4. STD and RTI

5. Yaws

6. HIV/AIDS

7. Gas gangrene

 

 

 

What Is Non - Communicable Diseases (NCDs)?

 

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are not passed from person to person means diseases that can't be directly transmitted between people.  NCDs also known as chronic diseases. They are of long duration and generally slow progression and may stay with people for life.

Non - Communicable Diseases Includes -

 

1. Malnutrition

A. Under Nutrition

B. Over Nutrition

C. Nutritional Deficiencies

 

2. Anaemia

3. Hypertension

4. Stroke

5. Rheumatic Heart Disease

6. Coronary Heart Disease

7. Cancer

8. Diabetes Mellitus

9. Blindness

10. Accidents

11. Mental Illness

12. Obesity

13. Iodine Deficiency

14. Fluorsis

15. Epilepsy

16. Chronic lung disease