Contains

• rickettsial disease

  Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial...

• TB

  Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever...

• meningitis

  Infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround...

• epidemic disease

  Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people.

• dysentery

  An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.

• leprosy

  Chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions;...

• hepatitis

  Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin.

• herpes

  Viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane.

• ratbite fever

  Either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse;...

• mumps

  An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid g...

• rheumatic fever

  A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of...

• sweating sickness

  Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating...

• dengue

  An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash...

• cholera

  An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.

• typhoid

  Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella...

• yaws

  An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin...

• whooping cough

  A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.

• yellow jack

  Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito.

• AIDS

  A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially...

• infectious mononucleosis

  An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an...

• listeriosis

  An infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed...

• paratyphoid

  Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever.

• poliomyelitis

  An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and...

• brucellosis

  Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals...

• relapsing fever

  Marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks;...