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Chickenpox
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Airborne disease. Caused by varicella zoster virus. It is transmitted by skin contact and respiratory droplets
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Shingles
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An adult disease caused by the same virus as chickenpox. It can also cause facial paralysis and severe "ice-pick" pains
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Influenza (flu)
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A highly communicable acute respiratory infection transmitted by airborne respiratory droplets. Contains two types of spikes: hemagglutin (H) and Neuraminidase (N)
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Measles (rubeola)
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A highly contagious disease caused by a member of the Paramyxoviridae family
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Rubella
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Acute, mildly infectious disease
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Mumps
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Viral infection affecting parotid glands
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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Spreads through close person to person contact. An emerging infectious and highly contagious disease, helical enveloped, positive strand RNA coronavirus. Bats may be the natural host of the virus
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Smallpox
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Caused by variola virus. Most dangerous weapons of bioterrorism. Virus is slightly larger than the smallest bacterium
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Arthropod-borne viral disease
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Viruses multiply in tissues of insects vectors without producing disease and vector acquires a lifelong infection
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West nile ( encephalitis)
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Transmitted to humans by culex mosquitoes that have fed on infected birds.
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