Welcome to "Vector-Borne Infectious Disease" website. This website will talk about infectious diseases and how vector-borne infectious diseases interact and affect the world around us. In the beginning, this website will briefly explain about what vector-borne infectious diseases are and what kind of animals/insects can transmit infectious diseases. This website will mainly focus on mosquito-borne infectious diseases which are malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and zika virus. For each diseases, there will be informations about the disease, its symptoms, treatments, prevention systems, and how humans can fight these infectious diseases.
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VocabularyParasite: "an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment." (Dictionary.com, 2005)
Virus: "a disease-causing agent that is too tiny to be seen by the ordinary microscope, that may be a living organism or may be a very special kind of protein molecule, and that can only multiply when inside the cell of an organism." (Merrian Webster, n,d). Bacteria: "a microscopic living organism, usually one-celled, that can be found everywhere. They can be dangerous, such as when they cause infection, or beneficial." (Vocabulary.com, n.d.). Vector: "an insect or other organism that transmits a pathogenic fungus, virus, bacterium, etc." (Dictionary.com, 2010). Pathogens: "any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism." (Dictionary.com, 2005). |