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Malaria

  • Protozoa carried by mosquitoes

  • Fever, chills. Kills millions each year

  • Mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Medicine will cure, but hard to get in Africa. Mosquito nets prevent infection. DDT prevents

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West Nile Virus

  • Virus carried by mosquitoes

  • Fever, chills. Can be deadly

  • Dead birds are 1st indicators of disease. “Newer” disease in USA

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Cholera

  • Bacteria in water/food

  • Diarrhea and death

  • Eliminated in USA, but still in developing countries without clean water to drink

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Zika

  • Mosquitoes transmitted virus

  • Causes birth defects (small head)

  • Sexually transmitted. Scare during 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. In many tropical areas

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Plague

  • Bacteria via fleas on rats and other animals

  • Flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, chills, weakness, and swollen, tender lymph glands

  • Spread through bodily fluids and tissues

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Tuberculosis

  • Bacteria

  • Damages lungs. Historically deadly

  • Spread by coughing, sneezing, breathing in bacteria, or by bodily fluids. Antibiotics treat and cure, but resistant strains are coming back

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  • Virus

  • Form of Pneumonia/lung damage

  • Spread by breathing in the virus or by body fluids. Mainly in Asia

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

  • Virus

  • Respiratory problems similar to flu

  • Camels and bats might be the vector. Mainly in Middle East, but a few in the USA