hey everybody dr. Oh here in this video I want to talk about the three different types of contact transmission obviously there's lots of ways for infectious diseases to be transmitted from one person to another but I want to cover the three types of contact transmission so we have direct contact transmission in direct contact transmission and droplet transmission so they all involve you directly touching someone that is sick or touching something that they have contaminated so so here receive direct contact transmission you see somebody kissing a baby you see people touching hands obviously that's it those are those are great okay very important things I hope my son's hand every day I kiss them every day but these are great ways for microbes and pathogens to be spread right so that's direct contact transmission I'm sick i touch you you get sick right so that is direct contact transmission I think about like sexually transmitted infections being the same type of thing next here we have indirect contact transmission and this is going to involve touching and inanimate objects so instead of me touching you and you getting sick from that I touch something that you then touch so this inanimate object that can spread disease is called a foe mite so fomites a very important term here we see a door handle a towel and a needle right obviously sharing needles and stuff like that so so in direct contact transmission is I touch something and contaminated you then touch the same thing so sharing a computer keyboard or a mouse or the door handles are a great thing a great a great example obviously sharing needles a huge no-no so that is in direct contact transmission the third type has love this picture but the third type of contact transmission is droplet transmission whereas so direct contact transmission I touch you and get you infected and sick in direct contact runs mission I touch something you touch droplet transmission is and this is not airborne right airborne airborne diseases are different so here's how I delineate the two and this is a meter right droplet transmission this guy's spewing microorganisms about a meter out around from where he's sneezing so these droplets are going to either touch you if he sneezes in your face or they're gonna land on something so so think of it that way so droplet transmission you're going to be contaminated by touching a droplet whether I cough or sneeze in your face or it gets on something that you then touch so that's going to be droplet transmission and then that meter is not a gold golden rule but but but it's it's it's important to delineate between respire Ettore disease so like an airborne disease as if I was you know like a measles or something if I was in the same room as you were even an hour earlier I could still be giving in the disease droplet transmission is a form of contact transmission all right so that's direct contact transmission in direct contact transmission that which uses a foe mite and droplet transmission I hope that helps have a wonderful day be blessed