MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Pathogen
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Organism that carries pathogen
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Type of infectious disease
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Type of emerging disease
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Detailed explanation-1: -A vector is a living organism that transmits an infectious agent from an infected animal to a human or another animal. Vectors are frequently arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, flies, fleas and lice.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria. Zoonotic Disease: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vectors such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks may carry an infectious agent through purely mechanical means or may support growth or changes in the agent. Examples of mechanical transmission are flies carrying Shigella on their appendages and fleas carrying Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, in their gut.