On a predisposed field for infection, like a cold or a flu causing virus, sinuses disorders are usually caused by bacterial organisms. Sinusitis is mostly an acute case and can be well treated; in other cases though symptoms can persist and lead to a chronic damage, or several acute episodes of sinusitis occur showing the [...]

Global warming is affecting human lives in a shocking number of ways. Increase in infectious diseases like malaria and dengue, conditions leading to serious malnutrition and diarrhea, heat waves and floods, are responsible for more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million diseases every year, and a study by the health and climate scientists at the [...]

In general healthy life expectancy has increased due to several factors of out lifestyle. During the span of the 20th century, average life expectancy jumped from around 49 years of age in 1901 up to 77 years by the century’s end.The center for Disease Control and Prevention gives the following as the big reasons for [...]

Infectious diseases are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer, claiming more than 100,000 Americans lives annually and costing more than $30 billion in direct treatment expense alone. Infectious diseases are responsible for a quarter to a third of the 54 million deaths globally each year and are [...]

The German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910) contributed so much to the field of microbiology and infectious diseases. A contemporary of Louis Pasteur, Koch worked as a physician most of his life.Some of the great contributions to the field of microbiology and infectious diseases include identifying the bacterium that causes anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) in 1877. He [...]

There are statistics to show that there is great evidence that non infectious diseases are quite a big cause of death. It is possible to get a non infectious disease though inherited means. It is not possible to catch a non infectious disease so that is a good thing.Other ways non infectious diseases can be [...]