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What are some infectious disease found in humans?
HIV
Is botulism an infectious disease?
No. Botulism is a deadly poison usually found in carelessly canned food.
What was the most dreaded disease in early Louisiana?
The most dreaded disease in early Louisiana was leprosy. If anyone was found with this type of disease, they were segregated from the others so as to prevent spreading of the disease.
What is the infectious disease that is transmitted from dogs and causes weakness. The disease is found in Mexico and is diagnosed by obseving large flagellates in the RBC's.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Infectious+disease+in+dogs+in+Mexico&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
What is melioidosis?
Melioidosis is an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a gram-negative bacillus found in soil and water. It has both acute and chronic forms.
Benefits of Devil's Facial Tumour Disease?
There are no benefits to the Devil's Facial Tumour disease found in Tasmanian Devils. It is an insidious and dangerous disease which is gradually spreading through more and more of the Tasmanian Devil population.
Is Ebola an infectious or noninfectious disease?
Yes. Anthrax is a disease caused by the Anthracis bacterium. It is usually found in cattle but can be transmitted to people through contact with diseased animals, their hair or hides, the soil of a pasture in which a diseased animal was grazing, and by transmission through the air. Anthrax occurring on the skin is serious but usually not fatal if treated. Anthrax occurring in the lungs (because the bacterial spores were inhaled) has a high fatality rate.
Can a child get hand foot and mouth from a swimming pool?
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease can only be found in human and it transmits from human to human. Foot and Mouth Disease, which is caused by other virus, is an infectious disease found in hoof animals such as cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep, pigs, etc. The Foot and Mouth Disease causes the animals to show symptoms in the mouths and at the hooves. The infected animals mostly survive. The disease does not be counted as human infectious disease. In the past, only a few patients reported with this disease and can be recovered by themselves without any treatment.
How do you stop the black death from spreading nowadays?
The plague is a disease that has been "wiped" out. Sometimes a small rodent in a remote area will be found with it and isolated, but that happens very seldom.
Do you catch a disease if a bed bug bites you?
No. Bed bugs have not been found to transmit diseases in the way that mosquitoes can. At this point, we do know that they can carry them, they are just incapable of spreading diseases.
What type of micro organism is mad cow disease?
There are two types of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the scientific name for mad cow disease). The first is what the general media picks up on when BSE is mentioned - the infectious prion identified in the 1980s and 1990s that is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease in humans. However, this form has been almost entirely eradicated in the world. The second is what the last three cases of BSE in the United States have been - atypical or spontaneous BSE. This is where the normal protein in the brain misfolds on its own and causes a chain reaction.
What is Kuru?
Kuru is a medical condition that affects the brain and nervous system. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded prion proteins found in the brain and is infectious. This disease was found in some people of New Guinea who engaged in ritual cannibalism and ate the infected brains of dead people with the condition. Kuru is related to :- BSE (Mad Cow disease) Scrapie CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
