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  2. Blood-borne disease - Wikipedia

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    A blood-borne disease is a disease that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms , like bacteria and parasites , and non-living infectious agents such as viruses .

  3. Bloodstream infection - Wikipedia

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    Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are infections of blood caused by blood-borne pathogens. [1] The detection of microbes in the blood (most commonly accomplished by blood cultures [2]) is always abnormal. A bloodstream infection is different from sepsis, which is characterized by severe inflammatory or immune responses of the host organism to ...

  4. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Human metapneumovirus infection No Ehrlichia chaffeensis: Human monocytic ehrlichiosis: PCR: Doxycycline: No One of the human papillomaviruses: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection Yes: Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV) Human parainfluenza virus infection Under research [19] [20] Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) Human T-lymphotropic virus ...

  5. Your winter illness guide: Why norovirus and RSV are on the ...

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    Here's what you can expect this season from common winter viruses. ... Symptoms. Respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 share many common symptoms, such as cough, shortness of breath, fever, achiness ...

  6. 'Bleeding Eye' Virus Sparks Travel Warning and Worldwide ...

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    Symptoms include “sensitivity to light, dizziness, pain behind the eyes, nausea, vomiting, and rash,” the CDC says, while more serious disease includes meningitis, encephalitis, and bleeding.

  7. Some hospitals seeing increase in RSV, 'walking pneumonia ...

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    Although it typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms and most people recover in one to two weeks, it can be a serious infection for infants and older adults, resulting in hospitalization, the CDC ...

  8. Viral hemorrhagic fever - Wikipedia

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    Mékambo in Gabon is the site of several outbreaks of Ebola virus disease. Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo villages of Durba and Watsa were the epicenter of the 1998–2000 outbreak of Marburg virus disease. Uíge Province in Angola was the site of another outbreak of Marburg virus disease in 2005, the largest one to date ...

  9. As mosquito-borne illnesses spread, here's how to tell West ...

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    The viruses that cause all three illnesses are transmitted to humans via mosquito bite. ... relieve symptoms. Patients with severe illness often need to be hospitalized and receive additional ...