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Health Science > Medicine > Infectious DiseasesHuman infectious diseases grouped by causative agent and alphabetically
1 Viral infectious diseases
AIDS -- AIDS Related Complex -- Chickenpox or
Varicella -- Common cold -- Cytomegalovirus Infection -- Colorado tick fever -- Dengue fever -- Ebola haemorrhagic fever -- Epidemic parotitis -- Flu -- Hand, foot and mouth disease -- Hepatitis -- Herpes zosterShingles also called herpes zoster is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the virus that causes chickenpox. For information about either the building material or beach material, see shingle. General information Shingles occurs in peop -- Influenza -- Lassa feverLassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever first described in 1969 in the Nigerian town of Lassa in the Yedseram River valley. Clinical cases of the disease had been known for over a decade ealier but not connected with this viral pathogen. The infec -- MeaslesMeasles also known as rubeola is a common disease caused by a virus of the genus Morbillivirus''. Reports of measles go back to at least 700, however, the first scientific description of the disease and its distinction from smallpox is attributed to the M -- Marburg haemorrhagic fever -- Infectious mononucleosisInfectious mononucleosis (also known as mono the kissing disease Pfeiffer's disease and, in British English, glandular fever is a disease seen most commonly in adolescents and young adults, characterized by fever, sore throat and fatigue. It is caused by -- Mumps -- Poliomyelitis -- Progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy -- Rabies -- Rubella -- SARS -- Smallpox or variola -- Viral meningitis -- West Nile disease -- Yellow fever
2 Bacterial infectious diseases
Anthrax -- Bacterial Meningitis -- Brucellosis -- Bubonic plague -- Campylobacteriosis -- Cholera -- Diphtheria -- Epidemic Typhus -- Gonorrhea -- Hansen's Disease -- Legionellosis -- Leprosy -- Leptospirosis -- Listeriosis -- Lyme Disease -- Melioidosis -- MRSA infection -- Nocardiosis -- Pertussis -- Pneumococcal pneumonia -- Psittacosis -- Q fever -- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever or RMSF -- Salmonellosis -- Scarlet Fever -- Shigellosis -- Syphilis -- Tetanus -- Trachoma -- Tuberculosis -- Tularemia -- Typhoid Fever -- Typhus -- Whooping Cough
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