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#IDFridays Week 48: West Nile Virus
80% of people with this virus don’t have any symptoms Name West Nile Virus aka WNV (name comes from the West Nile district of Uganda where it was discovered in 1937) Transmission A virus that lives in birds but can spread to and infect humans, horses, and other mammals When mosquitoes bite birds infected with […]
#IDFridays Week 47: Typhoid
You can get this illness from the food you eat and the water you drink Name Typhoid fever Transmission A serious illness caused by a bacteria called Salmonella Typhi that can spread throughout the body and affect many organs The Salmonella Typhi bacteria live in humans (in the bloodstream and intestinal tract) and exit the body in the feces […]
#IDFridays Week 46: Swine Flu
A swine flu pandemic in 2009 killed more than 284,000 people worldwide Name Swine flu (swine influenza) Transmission A respiratory disease caused by a group of influenza viruses that regularly cause influenza outbreaks in pigs There are different subtypes and strains of swine influenza viruses The outbreaks usually cause illness in pigs, but do not […]
#IDFridays Week 45: Chickenpox
Why is it called chickenpox? Some say the rash it causes makes people look like they’ve been pecked by chickens Name Chickenpox aka varicella Transmission A highly contagious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, which is in the family of herpes viruses It spreads from person to person via infected droplets from sneezing or […]
#IDFridays Week 44: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
This disease appeared in the UK and Spain for the first time this year Name Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) The disease was discovered in Crimea in 1944 and in 1969 it was recognized as the same pathogen responsible for an illness identified in 1956 in Congo Thus the joint name was formed Transmission CCHF is […]
#IDFridays Week 43: Leishmaniasis
This is the largest parasitic killer after malaria Name Leishmaniasis (also known as kala azar, black fever, and the “Aleppo evil”) Transmission A parasitic disease that is categorized as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) The disease spreads when humans are infected with Leishmania parasites These parasites enter the body when people are bitten by an infected female […]
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