Archives: Glossary Terms

Parasitic disease from mosquito bites causing fever, chills.

Viral hemorrhagic fever from bats causing severe illness, bleeding.

Breast infection causing pain, swelling, often in breastfeeding women.

Highly contagiousAbility of a disease to spread from person to person. viral disease with rash, fever, cough.

Infection of brain/spinal cord membranes, often bacterial/viral.

Middle East respiratory syndrome, viral, from camels.