Communicable Diseases

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Marissa Hamilton Communicable disease 2-15-2013 This disease is also known as the transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, they comprise clinically evident illness. Resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism. In some cases infectious diseases may be asymptomatic for much or even all of their course in a given host. In the later cases of the disease may only be defined as a disease right now (which by definition means an illness) in the hosts who secondarily become ill after coming in contact with an asymptomatic carrier. An infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as some infections do not cause illnesses in a host. Infectious pathogens include some viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prisons. These pathogens are the causes of disease epidemics, in the sense that without the pathogen, no infectious epidemic occurs. They can also happen through the blood or other bodily fluids. There are so many types of communicable diseases, like HIV/AIDS, influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, and polio. HIV/AIDS are caused by sex. It means human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) it destroys or impairs the immune system of the people it infects. As the immune system weakens individuals become more at risk to infections. As the condition of it progresses, the immune system

becomes weaker and the individual becomes more at risk of getting acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the most advanced stage of HIV. Because of advances in medicines called antiretroviral drugs, many people with HIV only can live up to 15 years or more before symptoms of AIDS appear. Now, influenza is seasonal influenza (the flu) is a very contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times may lead to death without proper care or medicines. Some people such as older people, younger people or people with