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Can you be a dominant carrier for chlamydia?
The concept of dominance applies only to genetic diseases. Chlamydia is an infectious disease, not a genetic disease. You can be a carrier of chlamydia; that is, you can be infected and capable of passing the infection without having symptoms.
Can you join the navy with thyroids disease?
The military needs healthy individuals to serve. Health issues will prevent one from passing the entry physical. And if you do not reveal the condition, you can be discharged when it is discovered.
Is influenza a heredity disease?
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.
What could be wrong with your organs if you keep passing wind?
Krohn disease
Who discovered hand foot and mouth disease?
Friedrich Loeffler discovered the cause of foot and mouth disease in 1897 as being a viral disease. He discovered this from passing infected FMD blood through a filter and the fluid that came out could still infect a healthy animal. As to who discovered the disease's existence we have no way of knowing, the US has been having outbreaks since the 1870s, and the disease has probably been around much longer than that.
How do you stop sperm passing during the night when you are sleeping without your knowledge?
you don't and it would not be healthy if you did.
How did Ignaz Semmelweis change the way you look at disease?
Semmelweis noticed that the death rates in mothers during pregnancy was unusually high. He noticed that the doctors in his hospital were going straight from examining diseased dead bodies in the morgue to delivering babies, and thought that perhaps this meant that they were transferring disease from the corpses to the mothers. He suggested that all doctors thoroughly wash their hands between patients, and almost immediately the death rate fell. This was the first time that the idea of infectious disease (passing disease via a pathogenic medium, i.e. bacteria and viruses) was considered. before this, contracting diseases was put down to chance.
Can you get an disease from an feather?
yes birds can give people a disease, eg:bird flu
What are the chances of a person with albinism passing the disease to their offspring?
highly unlikely
Who is the Greek Orthodox patron saint of business?
Saint Nicholas... who stressed the importance of drawing material goods for passing them onto the poor.
Vertical transmission in animals?
Vertical transmission in animals does happen. It means a disease, condition or trait is transmitted from one generation to the next. This might be genetic or by contact, e.g. infection passing through the placenta.
Why is your mare laying down not eating and not acting like herself although she is passing stool and having bowel sounds?
This could be caused by anything from infectious disease to results of a traumatic accident. More information would be necessary to hazard even a guess as to what sort of problem the horse has. A call to the veterinarian to discuss what is seen would be recommended in order to make a more educated decision as to whether or not it warrents a veterinary visit or not.
