Is psoriasis contagious

Some people ask: can psoriasis moves from person to person, meaning is Psoriasis contagious disease or not?

Is psoriasis contagious


Psoriasis is the most common skin disease which affects 2% of the world's population, but there is a disparity in the rates of HIV infection are the least when Japanese and Indians and blacks and Americans while increasing the incidence of the disease in some East African countries.
Psoriasis affects men and women, and the incidence in children under five years, and research indicates that genetic factors personal preparedness, leading to the emergence of this disease.


Answer the question Dr. Hani beholder, dermatological Professor and former President of the National Center for research and a fellow of the Royal College of physicians in England, that the disease psoriasis is not contagious, so it is known that infectious diseases are those diseases that are caused by microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi).

Is psoriasis contagious

Therefore, non-contagious disease psoriasis is not transmitted from person to person, and the contact with a patient with psoriasis and mixing, do not cause any infection or transmission of the disease from an infected person to a healthy person, psoriasis a disease affecting both males and females, children are also susceptible to the disease, but less often than adults, and there are age during which increases the risk of a 20 to 40-year-old.

And the prevalence of the disease in Egypt and the world, says Dr. Hani beholder: ratio of about 1-3% of population of any country, they vary according to geographic location, where in the North hemisphere, where you just go to the South, the number of patients with psoriasis in the Arabic Republic of Egypt around 900 thousand patients, and in Saudi Arabia about 55,000 patients, and in Kuwait around 16 thousand, in the UAE about 14,000 patients and in Syria and Lebanon up to about 150,000 patients, The number of patients in Germany about 2.5 million patients, England about 3 million, and about 5 million American patients, the total number of patients in Europe are about 25 million patients.