(Communicable disease)
Reference :
WHO, CDC,
www.watertowncsd.org/webpages/rboyce/
Gulzar Usman Manganhar
Definition of Communicable diseases
Virus: smallest simplest life form. Not alive, and cause upper
respiratory infections and many other type of diseases.
Fungi: more complex than bacteria, but cannot make their own food.
Thrive in warm, moist environments.
Airborne: Germs are spread through the air, for example when
someone coughs or sneezes.
fever vomiting
chills chest pain
cough abdominal pain
unusually rapid breathing
decreased activity
breathing with grunting or
wheezing sounds
labored breathing
Treatments :
antibiotics(bacterial) Prevention: vaccine
antiviral medications * dont share food or drink, or be
bed rest around sick people
Infectious mononucleosis is sometimes called "mono"
or "the kissing disease. It is an infection usually
caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
constant fatigue
fever
Not everyone who is exposed to EBV sore throat
gets sick loss of appetite
swollen lymph nodes
Once you have it, you will carry the
headaches
virus for the rest of your life,
sore muscles
although you probably will not get
larger-than-normal liver
sick from it again!
or spleen
skin rash
abdominal pain
Varicella Vaccine
Smallpox
CDC, AFIP
Smallpox
Overview
Two strains: variola major and variola minor
Variola minor milder disease with case fatality
typically 1% or less
Variola major more severe disease with average
30% mortality in unvaccinated
Person-to-person transmission
Smallpox
Overview
6
Smallpox
Transmission
WHO
Smallpox
Clinical Progression
WHO
15
Smallpox
Clinical Progression
Thomas, D.
Smallpox Vaccine
Administration
WHO
30
Smallpox Vaccine Complications
More common in children and primary vaccinees
Most common: secondary inoculation
Skin, eye, nose, genitalia
50% of all complications
529/million (30% in one study were contacts)
Person-to-person transmission