Pneumonia
pneumonia
An infectious airborne disease is one that you can catch from a person sneezing. The one most people are familiar with is the flu.
In the 19th century there were lots of different types of disease but the most common ones are: tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever and measles and hundreds of thousands of people died from these diseases.
Huntington's disease is a genetic disease (not carried by an infectious vector) and so, it is not infectious.
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Infectious Disease can be spread from person to person though coughing or sneezing or some other means.(The Common cold, The Flu). Non-Infectious Disease cannot be spread from person to person. (Cancer, Heart Disease).
Penicillin is effective for some infectious diseases, like strep throat and syphilis. It does not cure most infectious diseases.
Infectious Disease
Infectious diseases are caused by germs that get into the body, but will not always be spread to other people. A contagious disease is something that someone else will most likely catch.
Alzheimer's may be growing, but it is hardly an infectious disease! You can't catch it from anyone. The common cold is the most infectious disease by far, but lyme disease is one of the fastest growing diseases in the US according to the CDC.
The winner of that dubious honor would probably be Smallpox.
A specific Coxsackievirus (A16) is the most frequent cause of this highly infectious disease