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Different Types Of Infectious Diseases

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INTRODUCTION
This report will be analysing the different types of infectious diseases and their characteristics defining the meaning of pathogens, types of immunities and differentiating the term immunity and immunisation. It also

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An infectious disease or communicable disease is a medical disorder caused by biological agents including virus, bacterium or parasite. In other words they can be described as foreign replicator, mostly microorganisms usually named as microbes, invisible with the naked eyes that invade the host organism.
Pathogen is another name for microbe that causes the illness and the most common types are bacteria and viruses, though handful of other microorganisms such as fungi and protozoa also causes disease.
Malaria is infectious diseases which is caused by protozoan from the genus plasmodium and are single celled organisms. There are different plasmodium species which causes various types of malaria but the most severe and deadly one is caused by falciparum plasmodium. It is believed to be accounting for 92% of worldwide fatalities from malaria, of which the bulk occurs in Africa and largely little kids. The remaining types may include Vivax P, Ovale P, Malariae P, and currently fifth one Knowlesi P.
Female anopheles mosquitoes are actually the mode of transmission of the parasite to humans by biting. But for it to be effective in doing this transmission, the species need certain characteristics which may include:
They need to be large enough

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