Infectious diseases are those that spread from one person to another. Healthy persons must be protected from people with these sicknesses.
Lets take a look at some of these sicknesses and how they spread.
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Organisms that causes Name of the sickness How it spread or Principal medicines
the sicknesses enters the body
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tuberculosis through the air
(coughing)
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tetanus dirty wounds
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Some diarrhea dirty fingers, water
flies
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bacteria pneumonia through the air
(microbes or germs) (some kinds) antibiotics
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gonorrhea and sexual contact
syphilis
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earache with a cold
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infected wounds contact with dirty
things
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sores with pus direct contact
(by touch)
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colds, flu, measles, from someone who aspirin and other
mumps, chickenpox, is sick, through the painkillers (There are
virus infantile paralysis, air, by coughing, no medicines that fight
(germs smaller virus diarrhea files, etc. viruses effectively.
than bacteria) _______________________________________ Antibiotics do not help)
rabies animal bites Vaccinations help
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warts touch infections.
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ringworm sulfur and vinegar
by touching or from ointments: undecylenic,
fungus athlete's foot clothing benzoic, salicylic acid
jock itch griseofulvin
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in the gut: different specific
internal parasites worms feces to mouth medicines
(harmful animals amebus lack of cleanliness
living in the body) (dysentery)
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in the blood:
malaria mosquito bite chloroquine
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lice by contact with
external parasites fleas infected people insecticides,
(harmful animals bedbugs or their clothes lindane
living on the body) scabies
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Bacteria, like many of the organisms that cause infections, are so small you cannot see them without a microscope, an instrument that makes tiny things look bigger. Viruses are even smaller than bacteria.
Antibiotics (penicilline, etc.) are medicines that help cure certain illnesses caused by bacteria. Antibiotics have no effect on illnesses caused by viruses, such as colds, flu chickenpox, etc.Do not treat virus infections with antibiotics. They will ot help and may be harmful.Infectious diseases
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