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Which of the following pairs contains an infectious and a non-infectious disease respectively ?

A

Typhoid and AIDS

B

AIDS and cancer

C

Pneumonia and malaria

D

Cancer and malaria

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B
Infectious diseases are those diseases that can spread from onel person to another e.g., AIDS. Non-infectious diseases are those diseases that cannot spread from one person to another e.g., cancer.
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