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Describe aids |
Transmitted by Contact between broken skin, wounds, or mucous membranes and HIV-infected blood or blood-contaminated body fluids. Symptoms are pain in abdomen and while coughing. No treatment |
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Botulism |
Transmitted through contaminated foods, symptoms are weak eye muscles, vomiting, treatments are an antixon injection and breathing assistance |
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Cholera |
Transmitted by water or food sources that have been contaminated by feces (poop) from a person infected with cholera. Symptoms are diarrhea , vomiting, rapid heart beat, thirst, muscle cramps |
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Gas gangrene |
Transmission: Through direct contact with bacteria, and then it propagates when oxygen is removed from environment in host tissue (3). ,symptoms-fever air under skin, pain in the area around wound. Treatment may include antibiotics and surgery to remove the dead tissue. ... Surgery consists of debridement (removal of dead tissue) and sometimes amputation. |
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Gonorrhea |
transmitted through sexual contact with the penis, vagina, mouth, or anus of an infected partner. Symptoms are pain in groin, pain during sex, abnormal discharge, fever. Treatment are antibiotics |
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Legionnaires disease |
usually spread by the breathing in of aerosolized water and/or soil contaminated with the Legionella bacteria. Symptoms are chest pain, diarrhea, fever vomiting nausea, treatment is antibiotics |
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Leprosy disease |
spreads person to person by nasal secretions or droplets from the upper respiratory tract and nasal mucosa. Symptoms- joint pain, blister, loss of color, rashes, reduced sensation. can be cured with 6-12 months of multi-drug therapy. |
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
spread by the bite of an infected tick, symptoms are fever loss of appetite, rashes or red spots |
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The plague |
Carried by the fleas on rats, the plague initially spread to humans near the Black Sea and then outwards to the rest of Europe , |
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Scarlet fever |
The bacteria are usually spread by people coughing or sneezing. It can also be spread when a person touches an object that has the bacteria on it and then touches their mouth or nose. |
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Malaria |
can be spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. |
