Examples of Diarrheal Diseases in the following topics:
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- Childhood mortality is high in developing countries where malnutrition, infectious diseases, and unsanitary conditions are widespread.
- In Asia, dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease, is a major cause of child mortality.
- Diarrheal diseases cause an estimated 1.4 million deaths per year in children under 5 years old.
- In developing countries, diarrheal diseases are also a leading cause of death from infections among persons with HIV.
- Poor nutrition is also an important factor in diarrheal disease risk.
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- The main diseases and health conditions prioritized by global health initiatives are sometimes classified under the terms diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty, although the impacts of globalization are increasingly blurring any such distinction.
- Examples of diseases of affluence include Type II diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, cancer, and alcoholism.
- In 2008, nearly 80% of deaths due to non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, strokes, chronic lung diseases, cancers, and diabetes, occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
- These illnesses include measles, pertussis, diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and polio.
- As the above discussion of diseases of poverty and diseases of affluence reveals, health trends are closely related to social, political, and economic patterns.
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- Diagnosis of infectious disease sometimes involves identifying an infectious agent either directly or indirectly.
- Diagnosis of infectious disease sometimes involves identifying an infectious agent either directly or indirectly.
- In practice most minor infectious diseases such as warts, cutaneous abscesses, respiratory system infections and diarrheal diseases are diagnosed by their clinical presentation.
- Microbiological culture is a principal tool used to diagnose infectious disease.
- Second, an infectious agent must grow within the human body to cause disease; essentially it must amplify its own nucleic acids in order to cause a disease.
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- Typhoid fever is a common, worldwide bacterial disease transmitted by Salmonella typhi, serotype Typhi.
- Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a common, worldwide bacterial disease.
- The impact of this disease fell sharply with the improved sanitation techniques of the 20th century.
- Public education campaigns encouraging people to wash their hands after defecating and before handling food are an important component in controlling the spread of the disease.
- The rediscovery of oral rehydration therapy in the 1960s provided a simple way to prevent many of the deaths of diarrheal diseases in general.
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- Giardiasis, sometimes referred to as beaver fever, is caused by the protozoan Giardia lamblia and results in diarrheal illness.
- Giardiasis is a protozoan disease caused by Giardia lamblia.
- Giardiasis is characterized as a disease of the gastrointestinal system.
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- Cyclospora diarrheal infection is commonly referred to as traveler's diarrhea and is caused by the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.
- Cyclospora diarrheal infection, commonly referred to as travelers diarrhea or cyclosporiasis, is caused by a specific species of Cyclospora.
- Specifically, Cyclospora cayetanensis is the species associated with the disease in both humans and primates.
- The symptoms associated with this disease are categorized as gastroenteritis based issues.
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- Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are both neurodegenerative disorders characterized by loss of nervous system functioning.
- Neurodegenerative disorders include Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, other dementia disorders, and Parkinson's disease.
- Parkinson's disease is also a neurodegenerative disease.
- The disease probably results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors, similar to Alzheimer's disease .
- Distinguish between the neurodegenerative disorders of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease
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- An acute disease is a short-lived disease, like the common cold.
- A refractory disease is a disease that resists treatment, especially an individual case that resists treatment more than is normal for the specific disease in question.
- A progressive disease is a disease whose typical natural course is the worsening of the disease until death, serious debility, or organ failure occurs.
- Slowly progressive diseases are also chronic diseases; many are also degenerative diseases.
- The opposite of progressive disease is stable disease or static disease: a medical condition that exists, but does not get better or worse.
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- Autoimmune diseases are an inappropriate immune response against tissues in the body.
- Autoimmune diseases are commonly considered complex immune disorders.
- While many autoimmune diseases are rare, collectively these diseases afflict millions of patients.
- However, defects of one or more of these genes do not cause an autoimmune disease, but only predispose a person for an autoimmune disease.
- The factors that trigger an autoimmune disease are still unknown.
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- Active immunity to diseases can be acquired by natural exposure (in response to actually contracting an infectious disease) or it may be acquired intentionally, via the administration of an antigen, commonly known as vaccination .
- Once your immune system has been trained to resist a disease, you are said to be immune to it.
- Certain infectious diseases, such as Smallpox, have been completely eradicated.
- By these vaccinated children not contracting these diseases, their parents, grandparents, friends and relatives (not vaccinated against these diseases themselves) will also be protected.
- Describe how active immunity to diseases can be acquired by natural exposure or by vaccination