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What disease caused by a microscopic organism kills more people than any other disease?
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what disease caused by microscopic organism kills more people thanany otherdisease?
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How do people get Maple Syurp Urine Disease?
It is a genetic disease caused by a mutation in a chromosome. You do not catch it.
What terrible disease caused an epidemic which killed over 3000 people in Montreal in 1885?
Smallpox
Can prokaryotic be harmful to people?
Yes. Bacteria are prokaryotic, so any disease caused by bacteria fits.
What is the contribution of Robert kosh?
Robert koch showed that diseases can be transmitted by blood. he innoculated healthy mice with blood from a diseased mice and shows that the healthy mice became infected, with the causitive agent being the same microbe.he provided the proof that was needed to convince people that microscopic pathogens cause disease. His first experiments were with the disease anthrax in sheep. Later, he obtained similar results for tuberculosis and cholera.he developed new ways of isolating strains of bacteriaKoch was able to state a series of steps that are needed to identify the micro-organism responsible for a particular disease. These steps are called Koch's postulates.Step 1: All infected hosts must contain the suspect organism.Step 2: A pure culture of the suspect organism must be obtained.Step 3: A healthy organism infected with the pure culture must have the same symptoms as the original host.Step 4: The suspect organism must be isolated from the second host, grown in pure culture and prove to be identical to the first culture.Koch's postulates can be used to identify the causative organism of an infectious disease. The symptoms of the disease are carefully identified and then the blood of sufferers is examined to determine possible causative organisms.
What is the definition of the word infectious?
The standard definitions is "(of a disease or disease-causing organism) likely to be transmitted to people, organisms, etc., through the environment."It has come to mean " likely to spread or influence others in a rapid manner."
Is influenza an organism?
No, but it is caused by an organism. Influenza is the name of the infectious disease that certain viruses cause in people and other animals. The virus that causes the flu is the organism, and influenza is the disease the organism causes.
What are examples of non microscopic organism?
London busses, tube trains, people.
What is an infectious disease caused by?
Infectious diseases are caused by micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses that have the ability to reproduce and spread to other parts of the body or to other hosts (people) and cause harm to the host by preventing parts of the body from performing necessary functions.
How do people get Maple Syurp Urine Disease?
It is a genetic disease caused by a mutation in a chromosome. You do not catch it.
What toxic biological substance or disease-causing organism is hazardous to the health of people?
biohazard
Which disease is thought to have caused the most harm to the most people?
Milaria
Is flu a pathogen?
Flu is caused by a pathogen (by viruses) but is not the pathogen itself, flu is the disease the pathogen causes. Flu is short for influenza which is an infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by influenza viruses.
The disease that killed many people was smallpox and?
mousito bites. it what caused by smallpox
Why did thousands of people come to the United states from Ireland in the 1800s?
A disease in the potato crop caused enormous famine and disease.
What are the statistics of people getting into a car accident caused by heart disease?
one in a million
How many people die from a heart disease caused by eating unhealthy food?
40,000
What do people think black death is now?
A disease caused by the bacillus, Yersinia pestis.
