A contagious disease is an infectious disease that is readily spread (that is, communicated) by transmission of a pathogen through contact (direct or... 3 KB (318 words) - 15:34, 11 March 2024 |
The Contagious Diseases Acts (CD Acts) were originally passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 85), with alterations... 29 KB (3,371 words) - 17:44, 1 March 2024 |
Infection (redirect from Contagious diseases) contagious diseases when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions (e.g., influenza). Thus, a contagious disease is... 116 KB (12,691 words) - 05:48, 27 April 2024 |
plague of Athens, that diseases could spread from an infected person to others. One theory of the spread of contagious diseases that were not spread by... 36 KB (4,172 words) - 07:29, 30 April 2024 |
COVID-19 (redirect from 2019-nCoV Acute Respiratory Disease) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China... 285 KB (32,672 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2024 |
alkaloids produced by fungi of the genus Claviceps Aspergillosis, a non-contagious disease caused when birds inhale Aspergillus spores that cause breathing to... 7 KB (619 words) - 13:49, 18 April 2024 |
contagious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contagious may refer to: Contagious disease Contagious (magazine), a marketing publication Contagious (novel)... 2 KB (261 words) - 15:10, 3 December 2021 |
encompassed both a general hospital and a separate pavilion-style contagious disease hospital. The hospital had two functions: treating immigrants who... 63 KB (7,625 words) - 21:11, 5 January 2024 |
Prostitution in Cape Town, South Africa, during the late Victorian era (section The Contagious Disease Act of 1868) time progressed, regulations on prostitutes increased under the Contagious Diseases Acts, and Cape Town saw a rise in both European prostitutes and prostitution... 14 KB (1,836 words) - 04:37, 17 September 2023 |
fictional diseases, diseases found only in works of fiction. Airborne disease, a disease that spreads through the air. Contagious disease, a subset of... 3 KB (373 words) - 20:38, 21 October 2023 |
Girolamo Fracastoro (redirect from On Contagion and Contagious Diseases) contagion De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis (On Contagion and Contagious Diseases), published in 1546: "I call fomites [from the Latin fomes, meaning... 14 KB (1,606 words) - 02:47, 9 February 2024 |
Noma is an opportunistic rather than contagious infection. No single pathogen has been associated with the disease (the causative organisms are common... 25 KB (2,776 words) - 09:43, 1 April 2024 |
a diseased state. Only some diseases such as influenza are contagious and commonly believed infectious. The microorganisms that cause these diseases are... 61 KB (7,083 words) - 12:43, 23 April 2024 |
family hiding in a forest as the Earth is taken over by a highly contagious disease. The film had its premiere at the Overlook Film Festival at Timberline... 15 KB (1,651 words) - 06:34, 6 March 2024 |
Herd immunity (section Eradication of diseases) immunity) is a form of indirect protection that applies only to contagious diseases. It occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become... 57 KB (7,315 words) - 17:16, 26 February 2024 |
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP – also known as lung plague), is a contagious bacterial disease that afflicts the lungs of cattle, buffalo, zebu... 4 KB (484 words) - 23:04, 29 October 2022 |
Isolation (health care) (redirect from Disease Isolation) infectious disease, is known as protective sequestration. Contagious diseases can spread to others through various forms. Four types of infectious disease transmission... 36 KB (4,204 words) - 17:02, 17 April 2024 |
Clonally transmissible cancer (redirect from Contagious cancer) was removed soon after, and has since shown no sign of reoccurrence. Contagious cancers are known to occur in dogs, Tasmanian devils, Syrian hamsters... 21 KB (2,234 words) - 22:03, 7 April 2024 |
Zymotic disease was a 19th-century medical term for acute infectious diseases, especially "chief fevers and contagious diseases (e.g. typhus and typhoid... 4 KB (472 words) - 17:51, 28 March 2024 |
the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, legislation that attempted to control the spread of venereal diseases—particularly in the British... 66 KB (8,386 words) - 13:05, 13 April 2024 |
Virulent Newcastle disease (VND), formerly exotic Newcastle disease, is a contagious viral avian disease affecting many domestic and wild bird species;... 15 KB (1,654 words) - 19:44, 4 March 2024 |
Infectious disease on cruise ships is a hazard associated with cruises. Outbreaks of contagious diseases can spread quickly due to the confined cruise... 15 KB (1,063 words) - 04:08, 19 February 2024 |
Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological... 191 KB (472 words) - 10:29, 21 April 2024 |
Miasma theory (redirect from Miasmatic theory of disease) Though miasma theory is typically associated with the spread of contagious diseases, some academics in the early nineteenth century suggested that the... 42 KB (5,238 words) - 00:02, 30 April 2024 |