Tropical Diseases (12)
Travelers looking for information on travelers health and residents alike will learn all about tropical diseases from what they are to how to treat them. Malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, Chagas, leishmaniosis, Ebola and Marbourg are just a few of the many infectious diseases that affect people living in tropical areas of the planet.

Symptoms (17)
Symptoms of infectious diseases are numerous and a diagnosis cannot always be made on the basis of symptoms alone.

Prevention of Disease (56)
Preventing infectious diseases comes in two parts the first being what you can do to prevent disease and the second what communities and governments do toward disease prevention.

Traveler's Health (12)
Learn all about the diseases you need to prevent while traveling and how to prevent and treat them on the go.

Treating Infectious Disease (34)
Learn how doctors treat infectious diseases such as malaria and bird flu and in some cases what you can do to treat ilnesses where there is no doctor.

Diseases by Name (29)
Here are infectious diseases listed alphabetically according to common and scientific names.

Diseases of North America (5)
Find out which infectious diseases you should avoid in North America and how to prevent and treat disease.

Intestinal Illnesses (2)
Intestinal infectious diseases can be caused by viruses, bacteria, protozoans, parasites and other diseases and inevitably cause diarrhea.

Insect Borne Diseases (12)
Diseases spread by insects such as mosquitoes and ticks are numerous and varied and include malaria, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, yellow fever and hemorrhagic diseases such as Ebola and Marbourg disease.

Foodborne Diseases (14)
Many diseases hop a ride on food and water and enter your body right through your mouth. The most typical illness is gastroenteritis or stomach flu and the primary symptoms are often diarrhea and vomiting.

Respiratory Bugs (4)
Unusual respiratory viruses and bacteria such as SARS, XDR TB, and bird flu are some of the diseases you can catch at home or abroad.

Contagious Diseases (29)
Diseases listed here can be caught from other people either through the air or from surfaces other people have touched from a doorknob to the food your eat. Not included here are sexually transmitted diseases.

Parasitic Diseases (3)
Parasitic diseases are caused by parasites ranging from malaria to intestinal parasites such as intestinal schistosomiases.

Diseases from Animals (65)
Some diseases such as rabies and bird flu are called zoonotic and are spread or carried by non insect animals like mammals, birds, reptiles and other animals.