Diseases and its causes Part 1

Some Diseases and Its Casual Agents

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1] Diseases Transmitted By Virus

Disease	Casual Agents	Transmitted By
Influenza	Myxovirus	By Droplets infections
Common Cold	Rhinovirus	By Droplet infections
Small Pox	Variola Virus	By Droplets and Skin Wounds
Chicken Pox	Varicella Zoster	Either Contact or droplet infections
Measles	Paramyxovirus	By Droplet infections
Rabies	Rabies Virus	Biting or saliva of rabid animals
Mumps	Paramyxovirus	Either Contact or droplet infections
Trachoma	Chlamydia Trachomatis	By Contact or Droplet infections
Yellow fever	Arbovirus	Ticks or by biting of mosquitoes
AIDS	HIV	Blood transfusion, unsafe sexual intercourse, Any infected needles like injections, etc.
Hepatitis	HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV,	Blood transfusion or By Sexual Inter courses
Dengue fever	DEN, DEN2, DEN3, DEN4	By Mosquito Aedes aegypti
Diphtheria	Cornebacterium Diphtheriae	Droplet infection

2] Diseases Caused By Bacteria 

Diseases	Casual Agents	Transmitted By
Typhoid	Salmonella Typhi or S.Typhosa	Faecal Contaminations
Cholera	Vibrio coma, V.Cholerae	Faecal Contaminations
Tetanus	Clostridium tetani	Injuries through infected objects
Tuberculosis (Short Name TB)	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Droplet infection.
Whooping Cough (Pertusis)	Bordetella pertussis	Droplet infection
Pneumonia	Diplococcus pneumonia	Sputum of patients
Plague	Yersinia pestis or Pasteurella pestis	Rat flea bite
Leprosy diseases (Also known as Hensen’s Diseases)	Mycobacterium leprale	In contact with patients
Bacterials dysentery	Shisgella dysenteriae	Faecal contamination

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