Infectious Diseases by Name

Learn the details about the different infectious disease, including where they're prominent, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you do get sick.
A healthcare provider listening to an older man's breathing as he coughs.
What Is Latent TB?
Person with bandaged hand
Symptoms of Pseudomonas
Person coping with monkeypox on face
Coping With Mpox
Monkeypox rash
How Mpox Is Treated
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What Is Psittacosis?
Doctor comforts patient with neutropenic sepsis
What Is Neutropenic Sepsis?
Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis)
What Is Enterococcus Faecalis (E. faecalis)?
Intestinal roundworm
What Are Helminths?
An illustration of a doctor holding a magnifying glass over a pair of lungs with two people looking at it—a woman with a tissue over her mouth and a man who is coughing.
The Link Between Asthma and Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Woman sick at home with high fever
Epstein-Barr Virus Treatment
Parvovirus Symptoms
What Is Parvovirus?
Female doctor examines teenage patient
An Overview of Epstein-Barr Virus
Virus
What Is West Nile Virus?
Aedes aegypti biting human skin
Causes and Risk Factors of West Nile Virus Infection
Green Smoothie
What to Eat When You Have Clostridioides Difficile (C. Diff)
Blood Test
What Is an Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA)?
An oral vaccination of a baby boy
What Is Polio?
woman cleaning dishes with sponge
6 Items You Should Clean More Often Than You Do
Scientist conducting the process of Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify DNA by using a thermocycler to create samples
How West Nile Virus Infections Are Diagnosed
Asian sick little girl lying in bed with a high fever
Symptoms of Yellow Fever
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How Cholera Is Treated
Woman washing hands in washstand
How Cholera Is Diagnosed
Whas up
Causes and Risk Factors of Cholera
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Symptoms of Cholera
Ebola virus
What Is Ebola?
Swimming pools at the Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort at Cable Beach in Nassau, Bahamas.
Screwworm Is the Parasite Found in Paradise
Doctor examining child's mouth
How Mumps Is Diagnosed
Mosquito sucking blood
Causes and Risk Factors of Yellow Fever
Doctor giving young girl flu shot
How West Nile Virus Infections Are Treated
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Causes and Risk Factors of Chagas Disease
Fatigued man rubbing his eyes
Symptoms of Chagas Disease
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How Chagas Disease Is Diagnosed
Woman receiving vaccination.
How Yellow Fever Is Treated
Technician With Blood Vial
How Yellow Fever Is Diagnosed
Mosquito on skin
Overview of the Usutu Virus
Photo of Pregnant Woman With Cat
Treatment and Prevention of Toxoplasmosis
Hispanic doctor examining neck of patient
Symptoms of Toxoplasmosis
baby playing with toys
Causes and Risk Factors of Mumps
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Causes and Risk Factors of Toxoplasmosis
Flooded neighborhood in in Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey
The Spread of Waterborne Illnesses
Long sleeves, long pants and mosquito netting can protect you against mosquito bites.
How to Prevent Yellow Fever
Woman Taking Pill
How Chagas Disease Is Treated
tetanus pertussis vaccine
What Is Tetanus?
Toxoplasmosis and fetus
How Toxoplasmosis Is Diagnosed
Labeled illustration of a human heart
What You Should Know About Endocarditis
Guinea worm disease
An Overview of Guinea Worm Disease
Doctor examining young girl
How Mumps Is Treated
mother and daughter washing hands
An Overview of Enterovirus and Its Different Strains
MRSA
An Overview of Hospital-Acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA)
Deer tick on a finger
An Overview of Babesiosis
Asian man taking temperature while sick at home
An Overview of Typhoid Fever
T. cruzi blood infection
What Is Chagas Disease?
Preparing vaccines
Prevention of Meningitis
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Bloody Diarrhea Caused by E. Coli
Mother taking her sick daughter's temperature
Mumps: Signs, Symptoms, and Complications
Vibrio Cholerae
What Is Cholera?
Japanese seafood sushi, roll and chopstick on white plate
Anisakis Raw Fish Parasite
tapeworms
Parasitic Infections of the Central Nervous System
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What Is Yellow Fever?
OCP project employee collecting adult black flies, the vector for river blindness.
An Overview of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)