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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.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills thousands of people each year. Kim has an infectious smile.
Infectious disease specialists are subspecialists in the larger specialty of internal medicine. Here's how you become one: Medical school for 4 years, and then you need to apply to a residency program. This is the point of specialty decision. Internal medicine is a 3-year residency program. After this, you do a fellowship program in infectious disease, which lasts a year. It's really a fascinating specialty. I hope you enjoy it:)
Pnemonia kills more children than any other infectious disease. Most are in developing countries.
The exact year that the Polish people first came to Chicago is unknown. However, it was sometime in the 1830s with most documentation of them beginning in 1837.
It has been shown that there is documentation of coronary artery disease dating back to ancient Egypt. In more modern times, the creator of the smallpox vaccine, Edward Jenner, discovered arterial plaque when he was performing an autopsy in the 1700's.
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Lyme disease was first identified in 1975 in Lyme, Connecticut.
An infectious disease physician is a specialist and can earn upwards of 150,000 dollars a year depending on who they work for. Often this type of doctor works for foundations or governments as well as private industries.
A plant pathologist discovered an infectious RNA particle smaller than a virus that causes diseases in plants. He called it a viroid. Millions each year are lost by these viroids. These contain only RNA.
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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.