''Maintenance of personal and public hygiene is necessary for prevention and control of many infectious diseases''. Justify the statement giving suitable examples.

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Measures for personal hygiene include keeping the body clean; consumption of clean drinking water, food, vegetables, fruits, etc.

Public hygiene includes proper disposal of waste and excreta; periodic cleaning and disinfection of water reservoirs, pools, cesspools and tanks, and observing standard practices of hygiene in public catering.

These measures are particularly essential where the infectious agents are transmitted through food and water such as typhoid, amoebiasis and ascariasis.

Healthy habits also includes regular excersise, taking proper sleep, etc.

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