题目 Some diseases are contagious - like colds, flu, and chicken pox(水痘). But what about loneliness?Loneliness may not be a disease, at least not in the same way that chicken pox is. But loneliness can be contagious.How so? The same way that many emotions can be infectious. Being ar...
Smallpox was considered to be one of the most serious infectious diseases for centuries. It's highly infectious, and can be lethal in as many as two-thirds of all cases. Thanks to mass global vaccination efforts, it was declared eradicated, meaning it no longer exists, in 1980....
Infectious diseases: Infectious diseases are medical conditions and illnesses that are easily transmitted from one human to another. They have different modes of transmission. These can include sexual transmission, transmission by sneezing or coughing, o...
Rare diseases are difficult to classify because of their very nature. For our purposes, we've listed examples of the rarest diseases that exist only in laboratories, affect a handful of people or are virtually impossible to contract. Smallpox You might not expect one of the world's rarest di...
“Some smallpox vaccines can prevent mpox, including the ACAM2000 andJynneosvaccines,” Tosh said. "These vaccines can be used to prevent mpox because smallpox and mpox are caused by related viruses.” Because mpox remains rare, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not...
There are four main types of disease: 1. Pathogenic diseases- These diseases are caused due to the attack of pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses. Example- Pneumonia and Tuberculosis are caused by E.coli bacteria. AIDS, Measles, Smallpox are caused by viruses....
But engaging in this kind of investigation can be highly problematic if you are Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa. And so it has become.We are faced with the greatest threat to public health in this part of Africa since smallpox and other imported European diseases decimated the ...
In the last decades, wildlife diseases and the health status of animal populations have gained increasing attention from the scientific community as part of a One Health framework. Furthermore, the need for non-invasive sampling methods with a minimal impact on wildlife has become paramount in comp...
There are several other ways an epidemiologist might describe a disease event: Sporadicrefers to a disease that occurs irregularly or infrequently.5Foodborne pathogens, such asSalmonellaorE. coli, can often cause sporadic disease outbreaks.Tetanusis also a sporadic disease—it only occurs in unvaccinate...
It is said that an individual has more bacteria in his or her mouth than there are people on the surface of the globe.66 And unfortunately, sometimes we pick up pathogenic microbes. The number of human lives lost from infectious diseases throughout recorded history far exceeds deaths from ...