Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases, also known as contagious diseases or transmissible diseases, and include communicable diseases, comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism.
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Wash your hands of infection
Still the best way in the world to fight disease...
Swine Flu
Gulbarga > India
Dengue Fever
The best way to prevent dengue fever is to take special precautions to avoid contact with mosquitoes...
Prevention
Delhi > India
Drug for Parkinson’s comes closer to reality
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shed light on how Parkinson's disease spreads through the brain...
Prevention
Washington D.C. > USA
How to protect yourself from swine flu
Swine flu has spread across the country with hundreds of cases being reported...
Swine Flu
New Delhi > India
After swine flu, Pune now has to deal with drug-resistant tuberculosis
36 new cases of multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) were reported in Pune district in the last 40 days...
Tuberculosis
Pune > India
Soon, simple urine test to predict patients' responses to drugs
A simple urine test may soon help predict patients’ response to particular drugs.
Prevention
London > United Kingdom
Swallow parasitic worms, get cured of lung disease
Parasitic worms are known for infecting over a billion people worldwide...
Prevention
Washington D.C. > USA
7 Ways to Avoid Getting Sick When You Fly
The best research published so far shows that airplane passengers are 113 times more likely to catch a cold during a flight than during normal daily life...
Prevention
Washington > USA
Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases
Thanks to social media and the Web, today's budding epidemics can be located and tracked before they get very far: epidemiologists are now mining data from Twitter and Facebook, plus government and local news sites around the world...
Prevention
Los Angeles > USA
A Little Dirt May Be a Good Thing
Good hygiene has saved millions of lives, protecting people from countless bacterial and viral infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Prevention
Milwaukee > USA
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