Question

Besides through direct contact, how can communicable diseases spread from one person to another? Check all that apply.

indirectly through animals and food

through genes passed from one generation to another

from a mother to her newborn

through contaminated objects that multiple people touch

Answer 1

Select:
- indirectly through animals and food (yes — vectors/zoonoses and foodborne transmission)
- from a mother to her newborn (yes — vertical transmission)
- through contaminated objects that multiple people touch (yes — fomites/indirect contact)

Not selected:
- through genes passed from one generation to another (no — that is hereditary, not communicable)