Diseases Flashcards

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This disease is spread by airborne bacteria. It affects a persons lungs mainly and can move person to person through sneezing and coughing.

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Tuberculosis

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This disease is a STI that affects your immune system. Freddie Murcury had this disease.

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HIV/Aids

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This disease is spread through contaminated food and water. It is caused by the bacteria Salmonella Typhi.

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Typhoid fever

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4
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This disease creates a gray matter in your throat that makes it difficult for you to breathe as well as cause heart failure.

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Diphtheria

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5
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This extremly common disease attacks the lung, nose and throat. It has more than 3 million cases per year in the U.S.

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Influenza

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This disease can be both acute and chronic. It causes the bronchial tubes to become inflamed and filled with mucus.

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brohnchitis

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7
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This common disease inflames your air sacs and may fill them with fluid.

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pnemonia

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8
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This is a rare liver infection that is very contagious. Symptoms include fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and low-grade fever.

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Hep A

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9
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This is a mosquito carried virus that is caused by a plasmodium parasite

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Malaria

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10
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This very rare virus is caused by the bacteria, Yersinia pestis. It decimated europe in the middle ages,

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Bubonic Plauge

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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.

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Yellow Fever

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12
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This disease is very rare but very deadly and is spready through infected animal bites.

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Rabies

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13
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This disease is an inflammitory bowel disease that inflames the digestive tract. Symptoms include rectal bleeding, bloody diarrhea, and abdominal cramps.

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Ulcerative colitis

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14
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It is spread through contaminated food or water. It causes very runny diarrhea and extreme dehydration.

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Cholera

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15
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This very rare disease is very deadly to children but is less deadly for adults. It causes fever, dry cough, runny nose, and rash.

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Measles

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16
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This disease is spread through the air and causes an inflamation in the brain and spinal cords.

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Meningitis

17
Q

This STD starts as a painless sore, moves on to a rash on your body, then finally starts to affect your internal organs.

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Syphalis

18
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This very deadly disease is very rare in America. It can be spready by animal bites or blood. It causes severe bleeding, organ failure and death.

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Ebola

19
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This disease is spread through contaminated water or food. It causes the inflammation of internal organs and bloody dirrahre follows.

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Dysentary