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Hello, I am Benson Paglinawan and I am the head for the Technical committee.
This committee was in

charge of the technical side of the webinar such as the preparations needed to set up the zoom
meetings and by providing videos needed. The webinar was a great learning experience for me and my
team in how we were able to work together and how we try to overcome deadlines through teamwork.
We were only able to meet once, however the roles that they were given were carried out. We have
faced many challenges in which we were loaded with deadlines, however we still continue to strive to
get things done. Being a leader in this committee, I still have so many to learn in how to lead effectively.
Overall, I learned quite a lot, conversed, and met new friends along the way.
From the previous video about “How the Immune System Works” we learned about the process of its
complex biological system. However, should we keep relying on our immune system to always keep us
safe? The answer to that is NO. Our immune system learns from previous foreign intruders that it has
encountered and prepares a response when it is exposed by that particular microbe again. However,
when your immune system is encountered with a new threat, it might pose a risk to yourself, especially
if the unrecognized intruder is very hazardous, and to others as the disease might be communicable.
That is why it is necessary to be aware on how to prevent or control these infectious diseases. By doing
so, we need to learn more about the transmission of these infectious diseases and how to control them.
Firstly, how do people get infectious diseases? The development of communicable diseases can be
generally determined from the concept of the Epidemiological triangle model. (For editors: show the
Epidemiological triangle model). The following are the components of this model: disease agent,
environment, and the man also known as the host. The disease agent is an organism involved in the
development of a disease. This is the one that needs to be present for an infection to happen. Next, we
have the host. The host is any organism that harbors and provides nutrition for the disease agent. And
lastly, we have the environment. This is the surroundings and conditions in which is external to the host
that allows diseases to be transmitted. Because of these components, they create a pathway with each
other in which it allows the spread of infection. These transmissions can be direct and indirect. For
direct transmission, this means that there is an immediate transfer of the disease agent between
infected and the susceptible individual. This can be done through touching, biting, sexual intercourse or
sneezing. For indirect transmission, the organism is transmitted via contaminated materials. This can
occur through airborne, vehicle-borne, and vector-borne transmission.
Now that we learned about how these transmissions occur, we need to know how to prevent or control
them. In order to attain this, we must take into consideration preventive strategies to stop the spread
of infectious diseases.
Firstly, changing people's behavior can reduce or eliminate the risk by adapting simple health practices.
These practices are: using condoms to reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted disease, hand
hygiene, having a healthy diet, and many more.
Manipulating is the next preventive strategy. This strategy is to prevent production or presence of
disease agents by keeping the environment clean and not breedable by it.
Next would be increasing man’s resistance or immunity. Vaccines are one of the biggest successes of
public health as it can greatly reduce or even at times eradicate a disease. Vaccines trigger your immune
response to recognize and fight disease-causing organisms. Not only does it protect a single individual,
but through herd immunity in which a population has gained resistance to an infectious disease, the
people would also protect others. Medications are also used to manage infectious diseases. For
example, an antimicrobial medication is used to treat bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections.
This can be used for treatment and prevention.
Surveillance is another strategy that monitors a disease, characterizes disease patterns, detects
outbreaks, and is also used to develop and evaluate disease control programs. In some countries there
are laws that a notifiable disease should be reported to the health departments

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