Self-explanatory, its for a self test for my bio class.. Help is appreciated! Thanks!
Infectious Diseases - 2 Answers
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Ebola hands down. There is no treatment or cure and death occurs within days. There is treatment and prophylaxis for malaria and treatment for tuberculosis. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001339.htm
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If by win, do you mean which is the most powerful disease? I'd go for Ebola. Ebola is a virus. There is no vaccine. It has a nearly 100% fatality rate. And before you die, you bleed out of your orifices. Also, there's no cure. The only upside so to speak is that Ebola quickly burns itself out and is fairly rare. Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease. Deaths used to be prevalent, but are now controlled with certain vaccines and improved hygiene. Because it is a bacterial disease, it can be treated with antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is a problem though. Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite. It is very prevalent and infects between 350-500 million people and kills about 1-3 million. There is no vaccine. There are antimalarial drugs, but the parasites have become resistant to some of them. The best treatment is prevention with a bed net and preventing the mosquito vector. So for the worst of those three, I'm gonna go with Ebola
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