Infectious Diseases, Bacteriology and Antibiotics

Pandemic and epidemic diseases

A massive pandemic could kill millions and cost trillions of dollars. A pandemic is an infectious disease that spreads around the world and causes serious death. A disease is considered endemic when the number of cases in a region exceeds what would normally be expected. Infectious diseases have posed a constant threat to human health throughout history. Epidemics still threaten people because most epidemics have epidemic origins, but changes in behavioral patterns have resulted in epidemic rates for some chronic diseases. There are countless outbreaks of serious infectious diseases around the world. Some diseases are expected to cause serious epidemics. These include Ebola, Crimean-Congo, Lassa, Rift Valley, Chikungunya, Zika, Marburg, and SARS.

·         Common source outbreak

·         Propagated outbreak

·         Asian flu

·         Swine Flu

·         Lassa fever

·         Rift Valley fever

·         SARS

·         Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever