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Rare diseases caused by infectious agents rather than genetic or environmental factors. Pages in category "Rare infectious diseases" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
A rare disease is technically defined (in the European Union) as a disease that is found in fewer than 5 people per every 10,000 people. ...
A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan ...
There are few times when your doctor or physician will utter the phrase, "I don't know" to a patient, but when you're dealing with the rarest of diseases, then all bets are off. According to the ...
Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...
Fields condition, [1] also known as Fields' disease, [2] [3] is a neuromuscular disease that is considered the rarest medical condition in the world. It was named after Welsh identical twins Catherine and Kirstie Fields, who are two of only three people known to have been affected.
Just reading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Travel page, with its list of some 60-odd diseases from African Sleeping Sickness to Yellow Fever may be enough to make you World's ...
The disease disrupts communication between nerves and muscles, she explains, by interfering with a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, which travels between nerves and muscles and affects ...