Dengue Fever
Dengue (pronounced as “dengi”) fever is caused by flavivirus (there are four types of dengue virus, dengue 1-4 and all of these 4 types cause similar clinical symptoms). There may be sporadic cases of...
View ArticleKala-azar, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
What is kala-azar? Kala-azar is an Indian term (in Hindi and other regional languages in Ganges valley) as the disease as very common in India once and still occurs, which means black fever; kala...
View ArticleYellow Fever Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention and Travel Requirements
Before the discovery of the mode of transmission by Aedes aegypti mosquito in 1900 the Yellow fever was causing major epidemics in the Americas (North America and South America), Africa, and Europe....
View ArticleWest Nile Fever Transmission, Symptoms, Complications and Treatment
West Nile Fever is seen in Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East, and in some parts of Asia. Lately West Nile Fever is spreading in other parts of the world, e.g. in the year 1999, the disease was...
View ArticleTyphoid (Enteric) Fever Symptoms, Complications, Diagnosis, Treatment and...
Typhoid fever is a systemic disease (although it is called enteric fever) which is characterized by fever and abdominal pain. Typhoid fever is so named because of the close clinical similarity to...
View ArticleRubella Clinical Manifestations, Transmission, Diagnosis, Treatment and...
What is rubella? Rubella is an acute viral infection characterized by rash, fever, and lymphadenopathy (as well as many other manifestations) in adults and children. Rubella can resemble a mild case of...
View ArticleQ Fever Types, Transmission, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and...
What is Q fever? Q fever results from infection by C. burnetii (Coxiella burnetii) which is a rickettsia. Q fever is a zoonosis (zoonosis is a disease which is transmitted from animals to man). The...
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