APES Diseases

Malaria

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

West Nile Virus

• Virus carried by mosquitoes

• Fever, chills. Can be deadly

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

Cholera

• Bacteria in water/food

• Diarrhea and death

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

Zika

• Mosquitoes transmitted virus

• Causes birth defects (small head)

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

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

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

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Virus

• Form of Pneumonia/lung damage

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

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