HOW TO REDUCE THE RISK OF GETTING HARMFUL VIRUSES

HOW TO REDUCE THE RISK OF GETTING HARMFUL VIRUSES

VIRUS ATTACK Most of the viral diseases are caused by those microscopic organisms like viruses, bacteria, pathogens, parasites etc. These foreign bodies enter the body and multiply there by disturbing the balance of the body functioning. They invade living, normal cells and use those cells to multiply and produces other viruses like themselves.

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Understanding how infection is transmitted can help in taking right preventive measures and hence avoid getting sick.

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PATHWAYS In order to reduce the risk of getting a harmful virus attack, it’s important to understand through which all pathways virus attacks can enter. These harmful germs can spread from person to person through: ● ● ● ● ●

the air as droplets or aerosol particles. faecal-oral spread. blood or other body fluids. skin or mucous membrane contact. sexual contact.

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PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE .

PERSONAL HYGIENE .

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The best way to protect the body from harmful viruses is practicing personal hygiene. One has to maintain his/her hygiene and discipline in public places.

This could reduce the risk of pathogen attack to a greater extent. By the outbreak of covid-19 across the globe, many hand sanitizer suppliers came up with a message of uplifting the importance of personal hygiene.

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BOOSTING THE IMMUNITY .

Another important step that can be taken is maintaining a proper diet. As we know stronger immunity, less virus attack.

Taking good quality nutritional food can make the body powerful enough in withstanding external pathogen attack to greater extent. .

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PROPER USE OF PREVENTIVE AIDS .

As the pathogen attack can be through various pathways , it's important to take the right preventive aids. By the outbreak of COVID 19 many nations across the globe have come up with preventive aids like face masks, disposable latex gloves, immune medications etc. in order to ďŹ ght against these viral diseases. .

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