List of Different Human Diseases Caused by Bacteria viruses Protozoa and Fungi
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Contents : Diseases Caused by Protozoa Disease Caused by Bacteria Disease Caused by Viruses Disease Caused by fungus
Diseases Caused by Protozoa
#1 Malaria
Symptoms: Fever with shivering
Parasites: Plasmodium
Carrier: Female Anopheles Mosquitoes
Affected Organs: Red Blood Corpuscle (RBC) and Liver.
#2 Kala-ajar
Symptoms: High fever
Parasite: Leismania-donovani
Carrier: Sand Flies
Affected Organs: Bone marrow
#3 Sleeping Sickness
Symptoms: Fever with severe sleep
Parasite: Trypanosoma
Carrier: Tse-Tse Flies
Affected Organs: Brain
#4 Diarrhoea
Symptoms: Mucous and Diarrhoea with blood
Parasite: Entamoeba histolytica
Spread Through: contaminated food or drinking-water, or from person-to-person:
Affected Organs: Intestine
Disease Caused by Bacteria:
#1 Tetanus
Symptoms: High fever, spasm in body, Closing of jaws etc.
Name of Bacteria: Clostridium Tetani
Affected Organs: Nervous system
#2 Cholera
Symptoms: Contentious stool and vomiting
Name of bacteria: Vibrio Cholerae
Way of Transmission: One can infected by drinking water or eating food contaminated by the bacterium
Affected Organs: Intestine
#3 Typhoid
Symptoms: High fever, Headache
Name of bacteria: Salmonella typhosa
Way of Transmission: It is transmitted by consumption of contaminated food or water.
Affected Organs: Intestine
#4 Tuberculosis (TB)
Symptoms: Repeated coughing.
Name of bacteria: Microbacterium tuberculosis
Way of Transmission: It is spread through the air or the flu. Someone having TB who coughs, sneezes, talks, laughs, or sings then germs are released.
Affected Organs: Lungs
#5 Diphtheria
Symptoms: Difficulty in respiration and suffocation.
Name of bacteria: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Way of Transmission: It spreads through respiratory droplets, like from coughing or sneezing.
Affected Organs: Respiratory tube
#6 Plague
Symptoms: Very high fever, muscular eruption on the body.
Name of bacteria: Pasteuralla pesties
Way of Transmission: Bite of infected vector fleas like rat.
Affected Organs: Lungs, area between the two legs.
#7 Whooping cough
Symptoms: Continuous coughing
Name of bacteria: Hemophilis pertusis
Way of Transmission: coughing or sneezing of infected persons
Affected Organs: Respiratory system
#8 Pneumonia
Symptoms: High fever, swelling in lungs
Name of bacteria: Diplococcus pheumoniae
Way of Transmission: spread via air-borne droplets from a cough or sneeze
Affected Organs: Lungs
#9 Leprosy
Symptoms: Spot on body, nerves affected
Name of bacteria: Mycrobacterium leprae
Way of Transmission: close contact with someone with untreated leprosy over many months
Affected Organs: Nervous system Skin
#10 Gonorrhea
Symptoms: Swelling in urinary path
Name of bacteria: Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Affected Organs: Urinary path.
Disease Caused by Viruses:
#1 AIDS
Symptoms: Immune system of body became weak
Name of virus: HIV
Way of Transmission: through sexual behaviors and needle or syringe use. blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk
Affected Organs: Defensive system , White Blood Corpuscle WBC
#2 Dengue Fever
Symptoms: Pain in eyes, muscles, head and joints.
Name of virus: DENV
Way of Transmission: Bite of an infected mosquito
Affected Organs: Whole body particularly head, eyes and joints.
#3 Polio
Symptoms: Fever, body pain, backbone and intestine cells are destroyed.
Name of virus: Pilio virus
Way of Transmission: direct contact with someone infected with the virus
Affected Organs: Nerve, backbone
#4 Influenza (flu)
Symptoms: Suffocation, sneezing, restlessness.
Name of virus: Miso virus
Way of Transmission: direct contact, by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols.
Affected Organs: Whole body
#5 Chicken pox
Symptoms: High fever, redish eruption on body
Name of virus: Variola virus
Way of Transmission: by direct contact (touching the rash), droplet or air born spread (coughing and sneezing) of vesicle fluid
Affected Organs: Whole body
#6 Small pox
Symptoms: Light fever, eruption of bile on body
Name of virus: Varcella virus
Way of Transmission: direct deposition of large, infective airborne droplets of saliva onto the nasal, oral or pharyngeal mucosal membranes
Affected Organs: Whole body
#7 Rabies
Symptoms: The patient becomes mad with sever headache and high fever.
Name of virus: Rabies virus
Way of Transmission: through a bite from any infected animal or by intaking saliva of infected animals
Affected Organs: Nervous system
#8 Measles
Symptoms: Radish eruptions on body, Reddish eyes, pain in eyes. Yellow urine, Eyes and skin become yellow.
Name of virus: Morbeli virus
Way of Transmission: through coughing and sneezing
Affected Organs: Whole body.
Disease Caused by fungus :
#1 Asthma
Symptoms: Shortness of breath, Chest tightness or pain, increasing difficulty breathing
Name of fungi : Aspergillus fumigatus
Affected Organs: Lungs
#2 Athlete’s Foot
Symptoms: cracking and peeling skin on your feet, most commonly between your toes and on your soles.
Name of fungi: Tenia Pades.
Affected Organs: feet, toes soles.
#3 Scabies
Symptoms: tiny blisters or bumps on skin, Itching.
Name of fungi: Acarus scabies
Affected Organs: Skin
#4 Baldness
Symptoms: Hair of the head start to fall.
Name of fungi: Taenia capitis
Affected Organs: Hair of the head
#5 Ringworm
Symptoms: Round red spot on skin
Name of fungi: Trycophyton Lerucosum
Affected Organs: skin