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Infectious Diseases are caused by pathogens that can be passed between people, while non-infectious diseases cannot be transmitted. Noninfectious diseases are generally contracted through lifestyle choices (food, sleep patterns, lack of good nutrition, etc), genetics, or environment.
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What is the difference between algae and fungus?
Algae is a type of plant found in coastal areas. Fungi are basically mushrooms. Athlete's foot is a type of fungus disease.
What disease killed thousands between 1592 and 1593?
bubonic plague
What is a commutable disease?
A communicable disease is one that one person can catch from another person. The flu is one such disease. A noncommunicable disease is one that one person can not catch from another. Cancer is one such disease.
What is the probability of testing positive for the disease?
The probability isP(you have the disease)*P(the test shows positive when testing someone with the disease) +P(you don't have the disease)*P(the test shows positive when testing someone without the disease).The second category is particularly important if the disease is rare but the probability of a type II error is large.
What percentage of patients with Sickle Cell Disease is not of African decent?
Sickle Cell Disease can be found in patients of any nationality or decent. Both parents must carry the recessive gene for this disease, and only then their offspring have a 25% chance of inheriting the disease. Those of African decent have approximately an 8% chance of inheriting the disease, Hispanics have about a 0.07% chance of inheriting the disease, and whites have roughly a 0.001% chance of inheriting the disease.
What is the difference between plague and disease?
Plague is one form of infectious disease.
What is the difference between functional health and the absence of disease?
Disease is any change from a state of health; impaired body function.
What is the difference between disease disease?
Every disease is an illness but not every illness is a disease (A disease is not a virus, parasite, etc but an illness could be)
What is the difference between AIDS and HIV?
The difference between HIV and AIDS is that HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. You can be a carrier of the HIV virus and not contract the disease but you can infect others.
Is there any difference between coronary heart disease and coronary artery disease?
No. They are synonymous terms.
What is the Difference between cytopathology and histopathology?
Cytopathology is the study of cell disease, and hiostopathology the study of tissue disease.
What is the difference between disease incidence and disease severity?
The incidence of disease is how frequent or widespread a disease is in the population. Severity is how bad and serious any particular disease is in a person.
What is the difference between vaccination and medication?
Vaccination is used to prevent a disease and medication is used to treat a disease that someone has.
What is the difference between illness and disease?
The difference between disease and illness is that a disease is something that can consume your whole body and it is often things like cancer, ALS and many other things. An illness is short lived, often like a cold.
What is the difference between Chrons and Crohns disease?
Chrons is a common misspelling of Crohn's.
What is the difference between Charcot-Marie-Tooth and Multiple Sclerosis?
no difference, just the name. Same syndrome / disease
What is the difference between a pathogen and a contagion?
A pathogen causes a disease while a contagion spreads a disease by direct or indirect contact.
