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
Malaria is a disease characterized by fever and flu like illness that according to the CDC “if not treated can lead to jaundice, kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death” (CDC p.2. There are four types of malaria: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae with the most common type being plasmodium falciparum. (CDC p.1) ).. This disease can only be transmitted by an interaction of blood as the parasite lives in the red blood cells of the infected host individual. This can be due to blood transfusions, sharing of syringes or by its common vector, the Anopheles mosquito.Because of its vector being a mosquito malaria is common in areas with warm temperatures and causes the most damage in poor developing
Malaria is a very contagious parasite transmitted through mosquitoes to humans. Those at risk are individuals living in areas conducive to the breeding of mosquitoes, especially those that allow the mosquitoes to complete their growth cycle. Everyone is at risk
Infection is when foreign bodies such as bacteria, fungi and parasites invade your body these germs can cause disease and can even lead to amputation or even death in the host body. An infection may cause no symptoms or it may cause symptoms where you become really symptomatic and be hospitalized.
Bloodborne pathogens are viruses that deteriorate cells within the body. A virus is a submicroscopic parasitic organism that feeds on cells. Viruses are dependent on cells for their nutrients so the virus survive and reproduce. Every virus consists of
Pathogens are everywhere. They are in people, animals, and the environment. Pathogens come in a wide variety. The types are fungal, bacterial, viral, and other parasites. All pathogens can be dangerous, but two of them are more dangerous. These two types that more dangerous are fungal and bacterial. While both fungal and bacterial pathogens cause illness, they differ in the way they are transmitted, the way they are treated, and the diseases they cause.
Immunisation and other control measures are put in place to control them so that the diseases do not affect the whole population. This also may include food hygiene measures in restaurants and takeaways to control the spread of food poising. Communicable disease is carried out by microorganisms and then transmitted through people, animals, foods and pollution. In the UK, the government promotes health related points such as five-a-day this promotes to eat five fruit or vegetable a day, do regular exercise, eat a balanced diet. When people have a baby they are advised that they should take their child too regular check-ups and it is important to get their immunisation as it will protect the child from infectious disease.
It 's bad or infectious bacteria that cause illness as they rapidly reproduce and produce a toxin that kills or mutates cells, bacteria is also self sufficient.
- sexual contact (pathogens transmitted in any sexual contact, which can cause e.g. HIV, gonorrhoea),
An infectious disease happens when a pathogen goes in the body, multiplies, and causes illness. This is because the body is not strong enough to protect itself from an attack. Pathogens such as bacteria and viruses invade human and animals. Parasites are living organisms that live in their hosts which feed them and enable them to reproduce. Assigning codes for infectious or parasitic diseases can include combination or multiple codes. Use multiple codes when the patient has more than one diagnosis, a diagnosis with an etiology/manifestation connection, or a diagnosis and complications when there is no combination code available. Assign code V08 for a patient with asymptomatic HIV infection. Assign code 042 for a patient with an HIV-related
Malaria (also called biduoterian fever, blackwater fever, falciparum malaria, plasmodium, Quartan malaria, and tertian malaria) is one of the most infectious and most common diseases in the world. This serious, sometimes-fatal disease is caused by a parasite that is carried by a certain species of mosquito called the Anopheles. It claims more lives every year than any other transmissible disease except tuberculosis. Every year, five hundred million adults and children (around nine percent of the world’s population) contract the disease and of these, one hundred million people die. Children are more susceptible to the disease than adults, and in Africa, where ninety percent of the world’s cases occur and where eighty percent of the cases
Based on research and observation, we now know that infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms (pathogens) and that the immune system provides defense against infectious diseases.
Malaria or other similar diseases like malaria has been recognized and encountered by humans for more than 4,000 years. Malaria is caused by the genus Plasmodium parasites, which enter the human body and are transmitted to people through the bite of a mosquito infected with the parasite (Q&A, Malaria). Once the parasite enters the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver and then infect red blood cells. The malaria parasite was first discovered on November 6, 1880, by a French army surgeon named Charles Louis Al phonse Laveran. While stationed in
Diseases can also be transmitted by a mechanical or biological vector, an animal (typically an arthropod) that carries the disease from one host to another.
types of microbial diseases; i.e. how diseases are caused by microbes. Their types like bacterial, viral, fungal etc.
Malaria is one of the ten most common, yet deadly diseases in the world. It is a parasitic disease spread by the bite of Anopheles mosquito, which is active between dusk and dawn. Malaria occurs in over 100 countries and territories.