HLTH101 Lecture Notes - Lyme Disease, Microbiological Culture, Yellow Fever
4 Aug 2013
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Topic 6: changes in health through emerging and re-emerging infectious. Diseases 2: the epidemiology of infectious diseases: the epidemiology of infectious diseases, attributing causality of infectious diseases. Sporadic diseases are infectious diseases that occur randomly and occasionally they tend to be diseases that are not transmitted easily between humans tetanus and rabies are examples of sporadic diseases: endemic. Geographic factors can determine if a disease is classified as endemic or not for example, lyme disease can be considered to be endemic in some geographic areas and sporadic in others: epidemic. An epidemic is the state of an infectious disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality within a specific area of the world: epidemics are generally seen as public health problems or potential public health problems. Usually epidemics were formerly sporadic or endemic (or even nonexistent) diseases. Aids and influenza are two examples of modern pandemics: cycles of infectious diseases.
