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You can reduce your chances of contracting food-borne illness by practicing good hygiene measures, such as: taking care to wash your hands when handling food, taking care to eat and use water only fro…
In previous outbreaks of Ebola, the mortality rate was as high as 90%. In the 2014 epidemic, the mortality rate was about 53%.
Trench foot, also known as 'immersion foot', is a condition caused by feet being wet and cold for days at a time. Trench foot can occur even when the temperature is not particularly low. In trench foo…
Scabies is a very common condition, affecting an estimated 300 million people all over the world.
If your doctor suspects you may have tick-borne encephalitis they will carry out specific blood tests to detect the presence of the virus. To assist with diagnosis, a lumbar puncture may also be perfo…
Some mosquito-borne illnesses can be prevented by vaccination, but many others have no vaccine.
MERS is a serious health problem and should be treated at hospital.
Dengue fever is an infectious disease transmitted by mosquito and caused by the dengue fever virus.
Most cases of traveler's diarrhea will clear up on their own, but some will need treatment.
Yellow fever is a common disease in Africa and South America. Every year, 200,000 cases of yellow fever occur, with 30,000 people dying of the disease.
Most types of food-borne illnesses spread via the oral-fecal route, meaning that infected human waste contaminates food in poor hygiene conditions.
Mosquito-borne illnesses are caused by a variety of disease-causing microorganisms, including many kinds of viruses and several kinds of multi-cellular parasites transmitted by the mosquitoes.
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