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Both rabies and HIV are viral infections. Currently, both can be prevented in the vast majority of cases (rabies through vaccination and HIV through using barrier protection during sex). However, both infections once established are almost uniformly fatal.

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Both polio and AIDS are caused by a virus. There is a vaccine for polio but none for HIV.

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Both are viruses.

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Where is polio most common?

Polio is most common in India and Africa.


Viruses such as AIDS polio and flu in length are?

retroviruses


Infectious diseases of circulatory system?

nemona, aids, diabites, and polio


Is polio vaccine worth the money spent?

Yes, yes, and yes. Would you take a drug to cure AIDS? Or Shingles? Ask anyone who knows someone who had polio at one time. They have post Polio syndrome. They will tell you that they wish they had had polio vaccine then when they got polio.


How do you distinguish Aids virus from the Polio virus?

"AIDS virus" is HIV, Human Immunodeficiency virus. It causes AIDS, Auto-immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV is a retrovirus because it uses reverse transcriptase in replication. Polio is a picornavirus. Both have RNA genomes, and positive sense. They are also both icosahedron shaped. HIV is much bigger: 100 diameter, rather than 30 which is polio.


What disease can be from a virus?

colds,influenza,AIDS,measles,mumps,polio,smallpox,SARS


Viruses such as aids polio and flu range in length from 17 to 1000?

Nanometers (nm)


What is the Common name for polio?

poliovirus


What disease have healthy carriers?

Several diseases can, a few are: typhoid, HIV/AIDS, polio, etc.


What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr Jonas Salk to come out of retirement in 1987?

Aids


What pathogens causes polio?

Type 1 is the most common of the 3 Polioviruses that causes the Polio disease.


Franklin D. Roosevelt had been disabled by?

FDR was disabled by polio. A common disease that there was no cure for back then. Later on in the 1950's one man found the vaccine for polio. So, polio is no longer an issue.