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What precautions will you take to justify 'prevention is better than cure"?

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When someone gets a disease.
i) his or her body function gets damaged and may never recover completely.
ii) he or she may become bedridden of sometime.
iii) He or she can serve as a medium for further spread of diseases.
Therefore prevention is better than cure.
Ways of prevention of infectious diseases, Public hygiene is the key to the preventing of diseases, following general practices are adopted.
i) Avoid exposure to air-borne microbes.
ii) Adopt living condition that are not overcrowded.
iii) Prevent exposures to water-borne microbes.
iv) safe drinking water should be provided.
v) Avoid vector- brone infection, and establish clean environment as it would not allow mosquito breeding.
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