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Different viruses can infect all the organs and tissues of the body and the outcomes range from mild or no symptoms, to life-threatening diseases. [5] Humans cannot be infected by plant or insect viruses, but they are susceptible to infections with viruses from other vertebrates. These are called viral zoonoses or zoonotic infections. [6]
Orbivirus (virus) Cattle, sheep: Fever, salivation, swelling of face and tongue: Europe, Africa: Vaccination Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) Various assassin bugs of subfamily Triatominae: Trypanosoma cruzi (protozoan) Mild symptoms, then chronic heart or brain inflammation: Central and South America: Antiparasitic drugs; treatment of ...
A. Abalone shriveling syndrome-associated virus; Abelson murine leukemia virus; Adelaide River ephemerovirus; Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma; African horse sickness
“Nausea and or vomiting are usually the first symptoms of norovirus,” says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The incubation period for FMD virus has a range between one and 12 days. [12] [13] The disease is characterized by high fever that declines rapidly after two to three days, blisters inside the mouth that lead to excessive secretion of stringy or foamy saliva and to drooling, and blisters on the feet that may rupture and cause lameness.
CMV is really common—more than half of adults have been infected with it by age 40, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most people with CMV show no symptoms, but ...
The virus causes a lethal haemorraghic disease in domestic pigs. Some strains can cause death of animals within as little as a week after infection. In other species, the virus causes no obvious disease. ASFV is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and exists in the wild through a cycle of infection between ticks and wild pigs, bushpigs and warthogs. [12]
What are symptoms? Most people infected with bird flu in the U.S. have had mild symptoms. Symptoms of H5N1 birth flu infection in humans may include pink eye, fever, fatigue, cough, muscle aches ...