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Fifth disease is transmitted mainly through saliva, sputum, nasal mucus and can also be spread through the air by sneezing and coughing from an infected person.
fifth disease doesn't have swollen cheeks
Ultrasound is used to diagnose fetal fifth disease.
fifth disease
Fifth disease is a viral illness caused by parvovirus B19. Fifth disease is also known as "erythema infectiosum" and "slapped cheek disease." The clinical illness was described in the 1880s and was named fifth disease because of its "fifth" position in the numerical classification of childhood illnesses associated with rashes (exanthems).Fifth disease is caused by a virus.Symptoms include low fever, fatigue, a "slapped cheeks rash," joint aches, and a whole-body rash.Diagnosis is made based on clinical features.Rarely, fifth disease can have complications.Fifth disease in pregnant women can cause a miscarriage.
Erythema infectiousum is called fifth disease because at the time it was discovered it was the fifth most common cause of rash in children.
Disease is some thing wrong with the body.Disease is a infiction that spreads from one person to other person. Disease can not do a person physically and mentaly .Disease canbe so many types Eg;swine flu ,dengue feaver are some types of different diseases .
Parvovirus B19 most commonly causes fifth disease, a rash illness.
Blood tests are used to diagnose maternal antibodies against CMV or fifth disease.
The name Fifth disease originated in 1905, when a French physician assigned numbers to the common childhood diseases characterized by rashes. For example, measles was "first disease," scarlet fever was "second disease," rubella was "third disease," and so on. Eventually, the numerical names for these diseases were replaced, except in the case of fifth disease, which remains today.
Infectious disease.
More likely than not, the person is suffering from jaundice which is a disease of the liver.