What are at least 4 things you can do to prevent transmission of infectious diseases? How and why are these strategies effective? Why do you think public health initiatives to vaccinate for polio were so successful in the 1950s?
Week 4 question
What are at least 4 things you can do to prevent transmission of infectious diseases? How and why are these strategies effective? Why do you think public health initiatives to vaccinate for polio were so successful in the 1950s? What, specifically, made them successful? How can we learn from successful campaigns for disease prevention from the past, such as polio, AIDS, and others, to attempt to deal with new infectious disease threats such as Zika, Ebola and those yet known?