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Is color blindness an infectious disease like the common flu or influenza?
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∙ 8y ago
No, it is not an infectious disease like a cold or flu. Color blindness occurs in people who have a specific genetic trait for it. They often have adapted to the visual disorder by the time they are tested to find out they have it.
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What is an example of a disease associated with the lytic cycle?
Influenza, the common cold, and all the other viral infections.
What is influenza A?
Influenza is an infectious disease of the respiratory tract that is caused by influenza viruses. It is often called the flu.
What is the common medical name of the flu?
'Avian Influenza' is not the scientific name, the scientific name is actually Orthomyxoviridae, Influenza Type A, subtype H5N1. The common names are: Avian Influenza, bird flu, and fowl plague.
What diseases are caused by unicellular organisms?
Influenza, common cold
Is color blindness a dominant or a recessive trait?
Color blindness is a recessive sex linked trait.
Is colour blindness an infecious disease like the common cold or influenza?
No. It is usually a genetic disease that is caused by the genes which were inherited.
What is influenza type A?
influenza type A is the most common and dangerous of all the types of this virus. it has caused many medical panics in history.
What are three infectious diseases?
Infectious disease in one that is spread by intimate contact with body fluids. Some of these are influenza, mononucleosis, and Chlamydia.
What is viral syndrome?
It is an infectious disease caused by a virus, such as measles, mumps, influenza, shingles, the common cold and so on.
Is H1N1 influenza infectious or non-infectious?
Influenza is a highly infectious disease, even when the patient is recovering (unlike many other Infectious Diseases which quit being infectious when the patient begins to recover).
What is an on ifectious disease?
Infectious and contagious are considered different by the transmission route. A condition that is infectious is transmitted by contact with body fluids by touch or by airborne route. One such example is influenza, or the common flu.
Are all diseases infectious?
No Flu is an infectious disease and at the right time of year there is nothing rare about it.Not all are infectious disease are rare. In fact, the common cold is an infectious disease. The measles used to be a common infectious disease. However, due to the measles vaccine, this disease was greatly eliminated.
What is meant by influenza?
Influenza is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by the influenza viruses.The most common symptoms are chills, fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache (often severe), coughing, weakness/fatigue and general discomfort.Although it is often confused with other influenza-like illnesses, especially the common cold, influenza is a more severe disease caused by a different type of virusIt is commonly known as fluRefer to link below for more information
Are infectious diseases?
Any communicable disease is an infectious disease. See "Infectious and no Infectious Diseases what is the difference?" question .Common Cold Common cold and AIDS both are infectious diseases unless you take necessary precautions.
Is Influenza an intestinal disease?
no it is the flu or common cold
Is color blindness like an infectious disease like the common cold or influenza?
Color blindness is caused by a genetic defect, not by an infection by a pathogen. There are several diseases that affects the eye that are caused by a pathogen, but none of these are color blindness, rather a simple infection. no in fact it is very rare. Colour blindness is a self-contained problem of the person who has the colour blindnesss. It is usually a genetic problem or just something that went haywire during fetal development. Most people who are colour blind don't know they have colour blindness until an adult in their life figures it out. It is more a illness with children, it is genetic disorder. hay are u doing the young geneticist card coz I'm stuck too not at all. no. No it isn't as color blindness is from genetic traits. Therefore, color blindness is 99% not infectious
What are infectious diseases?
Any communicable disease is an infectious disease. See "Infectious and no infectious diseases what is the difference?" question .Common Cold Common cold and AIDS both are infectious diseases unless you take necessary precautions.
