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Disease Prevention and Preparedness
Infectious diseases can quickly spread throughout a community; however, prevention and preparedness methods can greatly slow and prevent the spread of infectious disease. The most common and practical prevention method is hand washing. Proper hand washing removes the harmful bacteria and viruses and keeps them from being spread around to other other people and surfaces. If soap and water is not available, then using hand sanitizer is a good idea. When a disease is highly infectious, large gathering should be avoided to help prevent the spread of the disease. Large gatherings allow the disease to spread from a single person to a large amount of people in a very short time. Another prevention method is quarantine for individuals who are either positive for the disease or who have been around a person who is positive. The amount of time a person must quarantine varies; however, most state-imposed quarantines last between ten to twenty-one days. The quarantines are to keep infected and possibly infected individuals away from others while they could still be infectious and prevent them from passing the disease to others. The national government will also need to take other measures to be prepared and prevent the disease from spreading. If the disease infects a very large number of people, a few hundred thousand, the national government can issue a nationwide lockdown. A nationwide lockdown will have many public places and public gatherings, like restaurants, shut down to try to prevent and discourage social gatherings. The national government will also put into place laboratories  for testing and emergency plans for large groups of infected individuals. These measures placed by the government will help slow the spread of the disease.