Posts Tagged ‘infectious diseases’
The Dangers Of Swine Flu
October 24, 2011
Swine flu is a respiratory infectious disease that is caused by an influenza (flu) virus. The strain of virus that causes this type of influenza is known as the H1N1 virus. This type of flu was first recognized in the spring of 2009. Swine flu causes symptoms such as fever, cough, chills, headaches, nasal congestion, ...
Granuloma Inguinale
October 19, 2011
You do not want to get granuloma inguinale. Fortunately, you probably won’t, as it’s very rare, and it’s even less common in economically powerful countries like the U.S. It is a venereal disease in which red bumps form on the genitals and/or anus. They can spread to the creases between the legs and the groin, ...
Candida Fungal Infection
October 17, 2011
Bodies are funny, aren’t they? One day everything is normal, the next day you’ve got spots, splotches or skin rashes. Maybe it’s chicken pox, maybe it’s freckles. I had no freckles at all until the summer I was nineteen, when a little flock of them migrated in and took up residency on my nose. A ...
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Meningococcal Meningitis: Meningitis In Children
October 7, 2011
One of the rarest of infections is meningococcal meningitis. The cases are so rare that less than 2,600 people contract the illness every year in America. People develop it after being exposed to the bacterium Neisseria meningitides also known as meningococcus. Meningitis in children develops when they contract the bacterial meningitis. It is possible to contract ...
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Infectious Diseases: Causes And Types
September 9, 2011
Infectious diseases are a result of a direct or indirect contact of micro-organisms or their products with susceptible areas of our body. Some of them result from contact with animals in the vicinity. These diseases causing micro-organisms include: Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses and Parasites. A couple of these micro-organisms actually live peacefully in different parts of ...
Babesiosis
August 12, 2011
Lyme Disease is far and away the most well-known of the tick-borne diseases. That said, it is not the only such disease. A lesser-known, but equally dangerous example of a bacterial infection brought about by the bite of an infected tick is Babesiosis. Like Lyme Disease, the deer tick is responsible for transmission of this disease. Curiously enough, as much ...
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Fifth Disease
August 10, 2011
The curiously named 'Fifth Disease' is one of many childhood diseases characterized by the fever it spawns, or the skin rashes that its sufferers develop to accompany the fever. More of an infection than disease, this common childhood condition can be avoided through basic hygiene for children. The name refers to its classification as the ...
Chancroid
August 6, 2011
The sheer variety and frightening diversity of sexually-transmitted diseases and the accompanying std symptoms are reason enough for many people to eschew unsafe sex and remain faithful to their partners. Human nature -- the propensity to “wander” or explore, or just carelessness -- has opened up a Pandora's box of stds and other bacterial diseases. One ...
