Question

Research an infectious Reportable disease. Explain how this disease is transmitted. what criteria are necessary for the case defination? is their a treatment, if so explain? where are most cases found? please site all sources.

Answer 1

Infectious diseases are those which happened by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi.

Here AIDS is taken as a infectious disease.

Transmition of AIDS: The root cause of AIDS is HIV virus, which can only be transmitted by blood. If contact between broken skin, wounds, mucous membrane, body fluids of two person happen then HIV negetive person can be a carrier of this disease.If two patner kissess deeply or take a unprotect sexually affair then this disease occurs.

Case Definition: abdomen pain, fever, night sweats, nausea, vomiting, white tongue, swelling,dry cough, severe weight loss, red blotches, skin rash, lymph nodes.

Treatment: No cure i there for aids, but now a days many drugs are available to control this situation partially. NNRIs, NRTIs, PIs are some drugs for AIDS.

Where Mostly found: In south africa about 7.2 million people suffer in AIDS, 6.1 million people in Western and Central Africa suffers in AIDS.