Question

cancer, diabetes, mental illnesses, and other diseases not spread from person to person via germs are called

Answer 1

Non-infectious. These cannot be "caught" from another person with the illness via any contact like germs.

Answer 2

Answer:

These are called non-infectious sicknesses

Explanation:

Cancer, Diabetes and Mental illnesses, are examples of diseases which occur due to internal processes. What they have in common is that they are produced due to internal processes in response to external conditions.

They also have in common that they are non-infectious sicknesses. Due to the the fact that they are not produced by germs. For example chicken pox and common cold are type of infectious sicknesses which can be spread to other people because of the spread of germs.

Sneaze and coughs are two of the mechanisms of spread of this germs.