Prepare for the Colorado Barbering Exam with multiple choice questions and detailed explanations. Get ready to ace your test!

Each practice test/flash card set has 50 randomly selected questions from a bank of over 500. You'll get a new set of questions each time!

Practice this question and more.


A communicable disease is:

  1. Not transmitted from one person to another

  2. Not responsible for an epidemic

  3. Transmitted from one person to another

  4. Caused by non-pathogenic bacteria

The correct answer is: Transmitted from one person to another

A communicable disease is an infectious disease caused by a pathogenic organism and can be transmitted from one person to another. Option A is incorrect because communicable diseases are in fact transmitted from one person to another. Option B is incorrect because a communicable disease can be responsible for an epidemic if it spreads rapidly among a population. Option D is incorrect because communicable diseases are caused by pathogenic organisms, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. Non-pathogenic bacteria do not cause disease.