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Infectious diseases spread when bacteria or viruses move from the carrier to others.
A doctor who specializes in infectious diseases, which means diseases that you can "catch" from another person or from a thing like a mosquito.
Infectious diseases involve a causative organism, from groups such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and such. Noninfectious diseases involve causes other than specific infectious organisms.
Infectious Diseases include: All Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's) and any type of Disease that is caused by an infection. An external factor has to be introduced into the body to cause an Infectious Disease. Also colds.
infectious diseases involve a causative organism, from groups such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and such. Noninfectious diseases are not caused by a specific infectious organism. You get an infective disease from a bacteria or a virus or even a fungus. Other diseases are not caused by these but by other things. For example: cancer.
"germs" -- bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and possibly prions
infectious diseases (those with bacterial or virus, or prion) you can also "catch" chemical based diseases such as contamination burns if you come into contact with someone with the chemicals on them.
Nope, you can't catch asthma from someone else.
As the list of pathologies and infectious agents are extensive, a related link is shown below.Once the web page is open, click on Figure 10.3. A table is displayed showing the main infectious agents and the pathologies they cause.
Pathogens cause Infectious Diseases by pathogens getting into your body and caused harm.
There are many infectious diseases that can affect animals, some of these may be passed on to humans (zoonotic diseases). Infectious disease may be caused by; bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasites and many other classes of pathogens.
A birnavirus is any of several viruses of the family Birnaviridae, which cause infectious diseases in fish or poultry.