current pandemic infectious diseases
current pandemics
The pandemics occur when a new pathogen to which people have little or no immunity and there is no response proper prior medical. The disease spreads easily among people and can extend for several countries. Through measures such as border closures and restrictions travel, may delay the arrival of the disease, but it's hard to stop.
The word means AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. It is a chronic infectious disease caused by a virus of the family of retroviruses and cause characterized by progressive and irreversible immune deficiency that makes the affected person is sensitive to the input of various pathogens that can cause variety of diseases, such as pneumonia or tuberculosis, which are caused by bacteria, which are clinical manifestations (signs or symptoms).
The only AIDS transmission routes tested are blood, semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk.
On the bird flu, health professionals are concerned since 2003 about the prevalence of the virus in Southeast Asia, and represents a significant threat to human health, especially because it can spread by birds transmitted from migratory birds to mammals and in some circumstances to humans. More than half of those infected with the virus have died and it is believed that most cases have occurred from exposure to infected poultry. There has been no sustained transmission of the disease among humans, but there are fears that the virus evolves by mutation and can be transmitted between own people. The
severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS is an atypical pneumonia appeared that first appeared in November 2002 in China. It spread to Hong Kong and Vietnam.
In the early twentieth century, tuberculosis was one of the leading causes of death in Europe and malaria ravaging many parts of southern Europe.
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