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West Nile virus
- Flavivirus
- virus
- +Strand RNA
- Enveloped
- Rservour -birds
- Symptoms - influenza like symptoms
- latency - 2-15 days
- Transmission - Mosquitoes
- Treatment - supportive therapy
- Prevention - sleeved shirts and pants, insect repellant
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MRSA
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Bacterium - G+
- Major organs affected - skin and other mucous membranes
- symptoms - abscesses and feverish symptoms
- Side effects - scarring
- Treatment - drian abscess,
- Prophylactic - hand washing
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Anthrax
- Bacillus anthracis
- bacterium - G+,
- Reservoir - Soil
- Transmision - inhalation, cutaneous, gastroitenstinal
- Organs affected - skin, lungs, lymph nodes, stomach
- Symptoms - red ksin turns to blister and than to black scab. fever, nausea...
- Sequelae - septicemia and death
- Treatment - ciprofloxacin
- Prophylactic measures - vaccines or antibiotics
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Hep C
- Virus
- +Strand RNA
- Enveloped
- IN Sub-Saharan Africa, Edypt, East Asia
- 3% of World population infected.
- Trasmiksion - broken skin to ifectous blood
- Organs affected - liver and hepatocytes
- Symtoms - abd pain and or swelling, jaundice
- Sequelae - liver cancer
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Malaria
- Plasmodia
- Eukaryote : protozoa, unicelullar
- in Africa 89%
- 200-300 millino cases a year
- Reservoirs - humans
- Transmission- mosquitoes
- Organs affected RBC, Brain, heart, liver, lungs, kidneys
- Squelae: neurolgical problems, problems with movement, speech, deafness, blindness.
- Treatments: chloroquine/Quinine
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