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A carbuncle is a red, swollen, painful cluster of boils that are connected to each other deeper under the skin .===* A boil (or furuncle) is an infection of a hair follicle that has a small collection of pus (called an abscess) under the skin. * A carbuncle is larger than a single boil, measuring up to 4 inches across. * A carbuncle usually has one or more openings that drain pus onto the skin....
Please DO NOT add profiles to this project. It is for general info.== === Also Known as: transmissible disease or communicable disease=== ==Definition== By Mayo Clinic Staff* Infectious diseases are disorders caused by organisms — such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Many organisms live in and on our bodies. They're normally harmless or even helpful, but under certain conditions, some...
Please add the profiles of those who have died as a result of an antibiotic resistant infection.== Antibiotics and similar drugs, together called antimicrobial agents, have been used for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases. Since the 1940s, these drugs have greatly reduced illness and death from infectious diseases. However, these drugs have been used so widely and ...
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type. The most common sign of infection is an expanding area of redness, known as erythema migrans, that begins at the site of a tick bite about a week after it has occurred. The rash is typically neither itchy nor painful. About 25% of people do not develop a rash. Other early symptoms may...
Please add the profiles of those who died from Glanders.== Even though this disease is associated with horses, donkeys & mules, Glanders can be transmitted to humans. Glanders (from Middle English glaundres or Old French glandres, both meaning glands; Latin: malleus, German: Rotz; also known as "equinia", "farcy", and "malleus") is a highly contagious infectious disease that occurs primarily in...