Infectious Disease
By K. McLendon and T. Bridgeforth
Why we like this subjectInfectious diseases was our favorite topic of the year. We liked it a lot because of the detailed and real pictures. The pictures gave examples of how it actually looks instead of having to read a description out of a textbook. Taylor and I just like diseases. We feel as though infectious diseases are something everyone needs to know about. We also learned how people get infectious diseases. Kayla and I also learned how to prevent ourselves from getting them. We enjoyed that we learned so much from our topic. It could help us in the clear future. We no longer walk outside barefoot.
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What is an infectious disease?
An infectious disease is caused by many factors such as fungi, bacteria, or parasites. All around the world people are killed by infectious diseases more than any other cause. Germs can be spread through touching, eating, drinking, or breathing, animal and insect bites, and kissing and sexual contact. To be diagnosed with an infection your medical history will be looked at and you will have a physical examination. Some infections can affect the entire body. There are some infections that affect a system of the body or one organism. To help prevent disease there are various vaccinations available. Your need to make sure that your water is clean and that you have good sewage treatment around your home.
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Fungal Diseases
Fungal diseases are also known as mycoses. The fungal diseases that effect humans can be divided into 4 groups. They are superficial mycoses, cutaneous mycoses, subcutaneous mycoses and systemic mycoses.
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bacterial diseases
bacteria are living, they have many different shapes. such as spherical, rod-shaped, and spiral shaped. some are autotrophs they make their own food while others are heterotrophs and have to find food. other types like aerobic use oxygen and on the other side like the anerobic don't use oxygen making oxygen deadly for them.
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Parasitic Diseases
Parasites use other things to live. It could be your body or another animals. They use you as a place to live and they feed off of you. You can contract parasites from contaminated water or food, a bug bite, or sexual contact.
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viruses
viruses can be prevented with vaccines that may be provided at a local physician. viruses are dead. They should not be considered living organisms.
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