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Transmission Of Diseases By Direct Method

Such methods imply close or personal contact with one who has the disease. Kissing, hand shaking, sexual intercourse or contact with faces are examples.Diseases like gonorrhea and genital herpes, and many diseases of instestine are spread by direct contact.
Direct contact may also mean exposure to droplets, the tiny particles of mucus expelled from the respiratory tract during a cough or sneeze. Diseases spread by this method include influenza. measles, pertussis (whooping cough), streptococcal sore throat etc. For some diseases as rabies, leptospirosis and     toxoplasmosis direct contact with animal is necessary.