BACTERIAL
o tuberculosis
• TB
• #1 killer, as far as infectious diseases go
• was gone…
• is now coming back
o tetanus
• mostly gone in modern world
• “lockjaw”
• total muscle contraction
o typhus & typhoid fever
• typhus = lungs
• typhoid fever = diarrheal
• “disaster disease”
o bubonic plague
• #1 epidemic killer of all time
• “black death”
• killed 1 in 3 Europeans
• used in combat/war
o anthrax
• zoonotic (mostly cattle disease)
• attacks lungs
• not airborne
• big scare after 9-11
o cholera
• diarrheal
• infection of food, water
• mutates rapidly
• gets milder (or can get milder)
o leprosy / Hansen’s disease
• almost gone
• close to TB
o diphtheria
• “disaster disease”
• airborne
• blisters on lungs
o whooping cough
• fairly common
• respiratory
o lyme
• from tick
• 1st case in Lyme, Connecticut (hence the name)
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