If every person in the world isolated for a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts If every person in the world isolated from each other for a certain period of time, say a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear? Lily Pauls Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday.