Chicken pox What is it? • Chicken pox is an infection by a virus called the varicella-zoster virus. • The most visible symptom is the blister like rash that develops on the body. • Most people will have chicken pox at some point in their lives. During the infection, the body’s immune system will create antibodies which fights the virus.
Patrick Guilfoille explains in his book “Chicken Pox Deadly Disease and Epidemics” that shingles is a viral infection characterized by blisters that are usually located on one side of the body. In the case of the baby these blisters are located on back (page68). 2. Chicken pox. Shingles does not usually occur in babies, but if a baby is exposed to chicken pox earlier in life and months later the babies immune system is compromised that baby can develop shingles.
Chickenpox (or chicken pox) is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV).It usually starts with vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than at the periphery and becomes itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring. Chickenpox is an airborne disease spread easily through coughing or sneezing of ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash. A person with chickenpox is infectious one to two days before the rash appears. They remain contagious until all lesions have crusted over (this takes approximately six days). Immunocompromised patients are contagious during the entire period as new lesions keep appearing.
Some people actually confuse their mild outbreaks with other skin conditions such as “eczema”. Early after infection, some people experience prodrome, a tingling, itching feeling that occurs in an area where blisters will shortly develop. Contrary to popular belief, both types can cause genital herpes (Osondu). Transmission is made during contact with a sore or fluid from an infected person, including fetal infection during birth when sores are present on the mother. The reservoirs of the virus are typically ocular, oral, or genital epithelial cells (Hodge).
Both disease's have flu-like symptoms such as fever, headaches, weakness, chills, and sore throat. In addition, Ebola and Black Plague, specifically Pneumonic Plague, can be contacted by human to human contact specifically through blood or bodily fluids seeping into broken skin. Once the Ebola virus transmits to humans, it takes two to twenty one days to show the flu-like symptoms. For the Black Plague, specifically the Bubonic and Septicemic plague, it takes about three to seven days to show flu like symptoms. For the Pneumonic plague, symptoms will automatically develop within one to three days after exposure to bacteria.
Babesiosis represents an emerging zoonotic tick-borne disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites of the genus Babesia, which are transmitted by hard-bodied (Ixodes) ticks. Several different species are known causes of disease in humans, most notably Babesia microti, Babesia divergens and Babesia duncani. Babesia infection may be completely asymptomatic or may present with an illness with a severity range from mild to fulminant, sometimes even resulting in death. Thus a complete descriptive history that includes clinical manifestations, travel history to endemic areas, tick bite or exposure, splenectomy, as well as a recent blood transfusion should be conducted. As the symptoms and signs of the disease can be relatively non-specific,
Living in the small intestine a tapeworm can grow as big as two feet. Diarrhea can happen when spoiled food is eaten, infection, liver disease, or cancer happens. “Eye problems can be caused by conjunctivitis, cataracts, glaucoma, trauma, viruses, inflammation, and retinal disease” (Flowers, DVM, 2014). There are five infectious diseases: bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoan, and rickettsia. Bacteria is a single-celled microorganisms that cause diseases.
Symptoms include depression, ruffled feathers, fever, anorexia, mucous discharge from the mouth, diarrhea, and an increased respiratory rate (Mbuthia P, Njagi L, Nyaga P et al., 2008). It is the most common pasteurellosis of poultry. As the causative agent is Pasteurella multocida it is considered a zoonosis. Adult birds and old chickens are more susceptible, but in parental flocks, cocks are far more susceptible than hens. Besides chickens, the disease also concerns turkeys, ducks, geese, raptors, and canaries.
Yellow fever is the original viral hemorrhagic fever, and what makes it different from the other VHSs, such as the Ebola virus, is its severity of hepatic injury and universal appearance of jaundice (Monath). Yellow fever is a dangerous disease because of its symptoms, mode of transmission, what can treat it and prognosis, and how it is diagnosed. Since it is the original viral hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever is a pansystemic viral sepsis with viraemia, fever, prostration, hepatic, renal, and myocardial injury, hemorrhage, shock, and high lethality. The genome sequence of yellow fever makes it appear that it may have evolved from other mosquito-borne viruses. The incubation period after a bite from an infected mosquito is 3-6 days, and the onset is rapid with fever, chills, malaise, headache, lower back pain, generalized myalgia, nausea, and dizziness (Monath).
Chicken pox. Chickenpox (or chicken pox) is a highly contagious but nonthreatening disease caused by Primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It usually Starts with vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than at the periphery and become itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring. On examination, The observer typically finds lesions at various stages of healing. Chickenpox is an airborne disease which spreads easily through coughing or sneezing of ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash.