World Health Diseases

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  1. 1. a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver.
  2. 4. a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs.
  3. 5. an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
  4. 6. infection by a fungus found in the droppings of birds and bats in humid areas. It is not serious if confined to the lungs but can be fatal if spread throughout the body.
  5. 9. a severe infectious bacterial disease of animals transmissible to humans, characterized by ulcers at the site of infection, fever, and loss of weight.
  6. 12. a novel positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus of the genus Betacoronavirus.
  7. 13. a bacterial disease typically affecting cattle and buffalo and causing undulant fever in humans.
  8. 14. a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics.
  9. 15. a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.
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  1. 2. a notifiable bacterial disease of sheep and cattle, typically affecting the skin and lungs. It can be transmitted to humans, causing severe skin ulceration or a form of pneumonia.
  2. 3. a disease caused by toxoplasmas, transmitted chiefly through undercooked meat, or in soil or cat feces. Symptoms generally pass unremarked in adults, but infection can be dangerous to unborn children.
  3. 7. a bacterium that occurs mainly in the intestine, especially a serotype causing food poisoning.
  4. 8. an infectious bacterial disease that occurs in rodents, dogs, and other mammals and can be transmitted to humans.
  5. 10. a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
  6. 11. an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus, whose normal host species is unknown.