"Fortune's Troubles – Prevention Knowledge of Digestive System Infectious Diseases (Life's Great Wall – Public Health Emergencies...)(Includes Disc)"

Author: Guo Xinhui
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Infectious diseases are primarily transmitted through respiratory tracts, digestive tracts, blood and body fluids, daily contact, as well as vectors like insects and soil. This volume focuses on digestive tract infectious diseases, which have different pathogens but share common characteristics: they cause illness through "eating" and "drinking," making them closely related to human life. These diseases include typhoid fever, cholera, bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery, and bacterial food poisoning. When pathogens directly contaminate food, water, daily necessities, or hands, or are transmitted to food by flies, ingestion can lead to infection. If feces carrying pathogens pollute water sources, outbreaks often occur in coastal ports, riverbanks, and water-rich areas. These infectious diseases are preventable. Maintaining a clean hygiene environment to deny pathogens a living space; protecting water sources and strengthening waste and fecal management; and paying attention to personal dietary and water hygiene can keep digestive tract infectious diseases at bay. This book provides detailed historical records, showcasing humanity's relentless struggle against infectious diseases over thousands of years and the major breakthroughs in medical history achieved through this fight. It reveals how these diseases spread, teaches early detection and self-diagnosis, and offers guidance on prevention.