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Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease which may develop after a Group ...

Prior to the development of vaccination and the introduction of a vaccine, ...

Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), also known as hum...

Influenza is a viral infection of the lungs characterized by fever, cough, ...

Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever was first recognised in 1976, when large ou...

Lassa fever is a notifiable (or reportable) disease in most countries and i...

Marburg disease was recognised in 1967, when an outbreak affected workers i...

Rift Valley fever has long been a devastating disease of ruminant livestock...

An extremely virulent, often fatal, Old-World, viral hemorrhagic illness....

Yellow-fever, a flavivirus and member of the Arbovirus family, is an envelo...

An acute, febrile, viral disease that affects livestock (such as cattle, bu...

This summer and fall, primary care physicians may be seeing more cases of W...

Dengue virus, first isolated in 1943, is morphologically indistinguishable ...

Scarlet fever is caused by an infection with group A streptococcus bacteria...

Rheumatic (roo-MAT'ik) heart disease is a condition in which the heart ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most severe and most frequently reporte...

Rickettsial diseases (rickettsioses): Various illnesses caused by rickettsi...

Q fever is an acute illness with fever, chills and muscle pains similar to ...

Rat-bite fever (RBF) is an acute febrile illness that is usually accompanie...

Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmone...

Psittacosis --- also known as parrot fever and ornithosis --- is spread by ...

Campylobacteriosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus...

Background: Relapsing fever is an acute febrile illness caused by spirochet...

Is it the Flu or West Nile Virus? This is a mosquito-borne virus that c...