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Fifth disease, also know as erythema infectiosum, is a common childhood illness caused by human parvovirus B19. The characteristic sign is a "slapped cheek" appearance. It can also cause stillbirths and miscarriages in pregnant women.
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) diseases are viral infections that cause high fever and profuse bleeding. Examples are drug-resistant tuberculosis, Dengue Fever, Ebola, Marburg, Lassa and Yellow fever. These viruses are spread in several ways. To get help on the spread, known causes (if any) or prevention, then please look at the links and subcategories.
"Hendra virus (formerly called equine morbillivirus) is a member of the family Paramyxoviridae. The virus was first isolated in 1994 from specimens obtained during an outbreak of respiratory and neurologic disease in horses and humans in Hendra, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia." (from CDC)
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Influenza ("the flu") is a class of viruses that seasonally infect people and animals in many different forms. Influenza is generally only life threatening in elderly, very young, or in people with compromised immune systems.
A contagious viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus, Rubulavirus. It is spread by direct contact with objects contaminated by infected saliva or airborne infected droplets. It usually occurs in children under the age of 15, though may also occur in adults. It causes painful enlargement of the salivary glands and may affect other organs, especially in adults.
The organism is also known as Norwalk-like viruses or caliciviruses. The disease is also known as stomach flu or viral gastroenteritis.
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RSV is the most common cause of respiratory infections in children. Most children are infected with RSV during the first year of life and almost all have been infected by age two. However, immunity is temporary and most people will contract it again as adults.
In most healthy infants, the virus causes symptoms resembling those of the common cold, such as fever and runny nose. However, premature or sick babies are at risk of developing more severe complications.
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Viral disease causing encephalitis (brain inflammation); rarely fatal in humans. Mosquitoes carry the virus from infected birds to other birds, people, horses, and other animals.Because corvids (ravens, crows, magpies, and blue jays) are particularly susceptible to West Nile Virus, dead crows found in or near urban areas are often used as an indicator of the spread of this disease.
The list of bird species that the virus has reported in is at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/birdspecies.htm
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