group of tropical diseases caused by a range of parasitic roundworms and larvae that transmit disease to humans. About 200 million people are affected by filariasis, which occurs in tropic and subtropic areas of southeast Asia, South Arnerica, Africa, and the Pacifico Mosquitoes inject the worm larvae when they bite, which migrate to the lyrnph [...]
Chronic hepatitis is a disease whose walk can be stopped by a physician supervised treatment and strictly followed the patient. Chronic hepatitis occurs after hepatitis epidemic malaria after untreated syphilis unkempt and sometimes after a half or treated in time. A common cause abuse but spirits remain. Brandy, liqueurs, brandy, wine and even beer in [...]
A disease caused by cytomegalovirus, one of the HERPES family of viruses. The CMV is the largest,most complex virus that infects humans. First discovered in 1956, this extremely common infection has affected almost aH children, yet rarely produces symptoms. By adulthood, up to 85 percent of Americans have been infected. While not usuaHy a serious [...]
A parasitic rnicrobe that infects the intestine and causes intense diarrhea, weight loss, and fatigue. It was identified as a cause of human disease only in recent years. The United States is currentIy battling its fourth epidernic of cyc1ospora,which began in the spring of 1996. In a recent outbreak, contaminated raspberries sickened more than 1,000 [...]
A rare fungal infection caused by inhaling Cryptococcus neoformans, a type of fungus found throughout the world, especially in soil contaminated with pigeon droppings. Untreated, this infection may be progressive and ultimately fatal. The disease is also known as Buschke’ s disease or European blastomycosis. Cryptococcosis Causes Although the infection usually affects adults, it can [...]
Inflammation and narrowing of the air passages (in young children), causing a hoarse, barking cough and a wheezing on breathing in. Once very common in children up to age four, croup is a frightening but not terribly serious illness. In older children and adults, the air passages are too wide and the cartilage in the [...]
The popular term for pediculosis pubis, or lice in the pubic hair. The pubic louse may also be found in eyebrows, beards, eyelashes, chest hairs, and armpits, but it is not found in hair on the head. While the scientific name for the pubic house is Phthirius pubis, it gets its common name from its [...]
group of tropical diseases caused by a range of parasitic roundworms and larvae that transmit disease to humans. About 200 million people are affected by filariasis, which occurs in tropic and subtropic areas of southeast Asia, South...
Chronic hepatitis is a disease whose walk can be stopped by a physician supervised treatment and strictly followed the patient. Chronic hepatitis occurs after hepatitis epidemic malaria after untreated syphilis unkempt and sometimes after a half or...
A disease caused by cytomegalovirus, one of the HERPES family of viruses. The CMV is the largest,most complex virus that infects humans. First discovered in 1956, this extremely common infection has affected almost aH children, yet rarely...
A parasitic rnicrobe that infects the intestine and causes intense diarrhea, weight loss, and fatigue. It was identified as a cause of human disease only in recent years. The United States is currentIy battling its fourth epidernic...
A rare fungal infection caused by inhaling Cryptococcus neoformans, a type of fungus found throughout the world, especially in soil contaminated with pigeon droppings. Untreated, this infection may be progressive and ultimately fatal. The disease is also...
Inflammation and narrowing of the air passages (in young children), causing a hoarse, barking cough and a wheezing on breathing in. Once very common in children up to age four, croup is a frightening but not terribly...
The popular term for pediculosis pubis, or lice in the pubic hair. The pubic louse may also be found in eyebrows, beards, eyelashes, chest hairs, and armpits, but it is not found in hair on the head....
Any one of a family of virus es that includes several types capable of causing respiratory illness and the common COLO, especially during the winter and spring. Corona viruses rarely cause fatal illness in humans. Named for...
A method of determining the level of fecal coliform bacteria (such as E Coli) in water. While these bacteria are abundant in the lower intestines of warm blooded animals (including humans), they are rare or absent in...
The federal organization charged with the responsibility of preventing and controlling infectious diseases for nearly 50 years. Established as the Communicable Disease Center in 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia, the CDC has led Centers for Disease Control and...