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While a person's genes may make him or her more or less susceptible to a particular infectious disease, infectious disease are not caused by genes. Infectious Diseases are caused by microorganisms (bacteria, viruses) that multiply in the body and that can be transferred from one person to another.

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yes. because my mom was doctor and she said, for example, there are men and women, when they have this and that, and later they divorce and when the men ahd the deasease, the next men that have this and that again with the women that divorced, have the diseases of the first men.

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Sometimes, it depends what kind of diese you have.

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