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Infectious Diseases are not hereditary. But there may be hereditary resistance or susceptibility to infectious diseases. Say for example sickel cell trait patients are genetically resistant to malarial fever. While sickel cell anemia is susceptible to malarial fever. Some people will not get AIDS, through they are carriers of HIV infection. Some people living in tropical zone will not get malarial fever and they are genetically reasistant to malarial fever.
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Is pneumonia a lifestyle disease hereditary disease or infectious disease?
It is an infectious disease. However, you are more apt to get it if you smoke or have otherwise unhealthy lungs.
How does Tay-sachs disease differ from an infectious disease such as pneumonia?
Tay-sachs disease differs from an infectious disease because it is a hereditary disease, so it can only be passed from parents to their offspring.
Is influenza a heredity disease?
No. Influenza is an infectious disease. A hereditary disease is one you are born with because one or both of your parents carry the gene responsible for passing the disease on to their children. For instance, if you visited a friend who had cystic fibrosis and 'flu, you could catch the 'flu from him, but not the hereditary disease of cystic fibrosis.
Is cystic fibrosis an infectious disease?
Good Question. The answer is cystic fibrosis is not contagious, however, people with cystic fibrosis tend to carry bacterial infections that can cause serious issues to other people with CF, so infection control procedures should be used when two or more cystics are around each other. General population folks need not fear of getting cystic fibrosis from others - it's a hereditary disease.
Is Parkinson's disease a infectious or noninfectious disease?
non infectious
What is an infectious disease doctor?
a doctor who helps people with infectious diseases.(see infectious disease)
Is pellegra an infectious disease?
Pellagra is not an infectious disease. Pellagra is a nutritional deficiency disease.
What is infectious disease?
an infectious disease is a disease caused by bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoan infection.
Is piles a infectious disease?
Piles (A Swollen Hemorrhoid) is not a infectious disease.
Is the West Nile Virus an infectious or genetic disease?
infectious disease
Are chemical spills an infectious disease?
Chemical spills are not an infectious disease.
What happens in our body when we have an infectious disease?
What happens in our body when we have an infectious disease
