Diseases Flashcards
This disease is spread by airborne bacteria. It affects a persons lungs mainly and can move person to person through sneezing and coughing.
Tuberculosis
This disease is a STI that affects your immune system. Freddie Murcury had this disease.
HIV/Aids
This disease is spread through contaminated food and water. It is caused by the bacteria Salmonella Typhi.
Typhoid fever
This disease creates a gray matter in your throat that makes it difficult for you to breathe as well as cause heart failure.
Diphtheria
This extremly common disease attacks the lung, nose and throat. It has more than 3 million cases per year in the U.S.
Influenza
This disease can be both acute and chronic. It causes the bronchial tubes to become inflamed and filled with mucus.
brohnchitis
This common disease inflames your air sacs and may fill them with fluid.
pnemonia
This is a rare liver infection that is very contagious. Symptoms include fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and low-grade fever.
Hep A
This is a mosquito carried virus that is caused by a plasmodium parasite
Malaria
This very rare virus is caused by the bacteria, Yersinia pestis. It decimated europe in the middle ages,
Bubonic Plauge
This virus is extremly rare and is spread by mosquitos. It can lead to bleeding, shock, organ failure and death. There was an oubreak of this in 1793 in Philadelphia.
Yellow Fever
This disease is very rare but very deadly and is spready through infected animal bites.
Rabies
This disease is an inflammitory bowel disease that inflames the digestive tract. Symptoms include rectal bleeding, bloody diarrhea, and abdominal cramps.
Ulcerative colitis
It is spread through contaminated food or water. It causes very runny diarrhea and extreme dehydration.
Cholera
This very rare disease is very deadly to children but is less deadly for adults. It causes fever, dry cough, runny nose, and rash.
Measles