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2 days ago · Unlike tuberculosis ("consumption") which in literature and the arts was often romanticized as a disease of denizens of the demimonde or those with an artistic temperament, cholera is a disease which almost entirely affects the poor living in unsanitary conditions. This, and the unpleasant course of the disease – which includes voluminous ...
1 day ago · Diseases may be classified as communicable or non-communicable. Communicable diseases are caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted to other people from an infected person, animal or a source in the environment. Communicable diseases constitute the leading cause of health problems in Ethiopia.
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5 days ago · Billions of dollars have been invested into other diseases that predominantly affect the world’s most vulnerable, like polio and tuberculosis, largely because those diseases are highly contagious and could cause outbreaks even in rich countries. But that’s not the case with cholera, where epidemics remain contained.
1 day ago · Study Session 32 General Features of Faeco-Orally Transmitted Diseases Introduction. In Parts 1 to 3 of this Module, you have learned the general principles of how communicable diseases are transmitted, the specific features of the bacterial and viral vaccine-preventable diseases, and about malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS.
3 days ago · This will be clarified using examples of communicable diseases that you may already be familiar with. In Study Session 1 you have learned the types of infectious agents which can be used for classification of communicable diseases. Apart from this, there are two main ways of classifying communicable diseases, which are important for you to know.
1 day ago · The seventh cholera pandemic began in South Asia in 1961 and continues today. Since mid-2021, there has been a global upsurge in the pandemic, resulting in the World Health Organization (WHO) classifying the resurgence as a grade 3 emergency in January 2023. This is due to the number and size of outbreaks, geographical expansion to […]
2 days ago · Billions of dollars have been invested into other diseases that predominantly affect the world's most vulnerable, like polio and tuberculosis, largely because those diseases are highly contagious ...
