An infectious or communicable disease is an illness caused by the transmission of a specific microbial agent (or its toxic product) to a susceptible host. The agents can be bacteria, viruses or parasites. The majority of microbes are harmless to humans. Some, although not universally pathogenic, are potentially dangerous and my cause disease in unusual circumstances. Caution is needed not to attribute a disease to an organism which happens to be present as a commensal or contaminant. continue reading…
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Food is a basic human need to continue life. Food needs to be healthy in the sense of having an optimal nutritional value, such as: vitamins, minerals, carbohydrate, fat and more. Food should be pure and intact in the sense not contain contaminants and should be hygiene. If one of these factors affected the resulting food will cause health problems and diseases and even food poisoning. Problems of food sanitation are very important, especially public places are closely related to the service people. The hospital is one of public places that provide public health services with the core medical services. To support medical services for patients who organized the hospital, there is need for both food processing and meet the hygiene requirements of food sanitation. continue reading…
