For more follow this link to join Microbiology Learning Forum : https://m.facebook/groups/578259865597635. =========== If all people lived in isolation for a year, would it wipe out all contagious diseases? Here are some answers provided by some notable people in Science. 1. Not possible because we all have one or other bacteria and virus in our body that might not cause disease now but can causes disease later nevertheless Isolation might help to reduce contagious diseases to minimal level. Oyelami Oluwaseun Isaac (President/Admin Mapoly Microbiology Learning Forum). 2. No. Not all diseases, though some of those diseases which are transmitted by direct person-to-person contact, but even most of them would become dormant and may not cause disease in the same person but might affect the other people at a later time via blood transfusion or other exchange of bodily fluids. Hafiz Aeymon. 3 . Many diseases are endemic in animals, and only occasionally jump species and infect humans, so NO. Liang-Hai Sie, retired general internist, former intensive care physician. 4. The answers that say No are correct – lots of diseases would persist. Diseases with animal vectors (hantaviruses, plague, many others), or diseases that are environmental (cholera, listeria, salmonella) wouldnt be much affected. Chronic diseases would persist: hepatitis B and C, all eight of the human herpesviruses (such as chickenpox, genital herpes, Epstein-Barr virus), HIV, tuberculosis, leprosy, plenty of others. But a fair number of quite nasty diseases might disappear. Measles would be gone after a couple of weeks of isolation. RSV and other respiratory viruses mostly would disappear. Even tough viruses like rotavirus, which can last weeks in the environment, would probably not make a year. Influenza is an interesting case. Human flu would be gone, but there are closely-related influenza viruses in pigs (who got them from humans in the first place) that would almost certainly make the jump back into humans after some time – maybe after a few years, as human immunity waned. Ian York, Virologist, immunologist, biologist, US Government. Answers 2,3 and 4 come from Quora
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