- Heart disease. Share on Pinterest Many of the top 10 causes of death are preventable through lifestyle changes and regular checkups. …
- Cancer. Deaths in 2017: 599,108. …
- Unintentional injuries. …
- Chronic lower respiratory disease. …
- Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases. …
- Alzheimer's disease. …
- Diabetes. …
- Influenza and pneumonia.
What are the most common diseases?
- Syphilis. …
- Gonorrhea. …
- Norovirus. …
- Salmonella. …
- Pneumonia. …
- Hepatitis C. Hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver due to a virus. …
- HIV. HIV attacks cells that help your body fight infection. …
- Common Cold. The common cold sounds minor, but it may not feel that way.
Which disease has no cure?
cancer
.
dementia
, including Alzheimer's disease. advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease. stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
What is fatal disease?
adjective. A
fatal accident or illness causes someone's death
.
What are the top 3 diseases?
- Heart disease. Number of deaths per year: 635,260. …
- Cancer. Number of deaths per year: 598,038. …
- Accidents (unintentional injuries) Number of deaths per year: 161,374. …
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases. …
- Stroke. …
- Alzheimer's disease. …
- Diabetes. …
- Influenza and pneumonia.
What are the 7 diseases?
- Pneumonic/Bubonic Plague. …
- Spanish and Swine Flu — H1N1. …
- Polio. …
- Chagas Disease. …
- Leprosy. …
- Hookworm. …
- Tuberculosis.
What is the rarest disease?
According to the Journal of Molecular Medicine,
Ribose-5 phosphate isomerase deficiency, or RPI Deficinecy
, is the rarest disease in the world with MRI and DNA analysis providing only one case in history.
What are the 5 diseases?
- Chickenpox.
- Common cold.
- Diphtheria.
- E. coli.
- Giardiasis.
- HIV/AIDS.
- Infectious mononucleosis.
- Influenza (flu)
Can Ebola be cured?
There's no cure for Ebola
, though researchers are working on it. There are two drug treatments which have been approved for treating Ebola. Inmazeb is a mixture of three monoclonal antibodies (atoltivimab, maftivimab, and odesivimab-ebgn).
What Diseases Are there cures for?
- HIV/AIDS. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, was only discovered mere decades ago. …
- Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's affects nearly 5.7 million Americans who struggle with varying stages of dementia. …
- Cancer. …
- Cystic Fibrosis. …
- Heart Disease.
What diseases have been cured?
Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated:
smallpox
in humans and rinderpest in ruminants. There are four ongoing programs, targeting the human diseases poliomyelitis (polio), yaws, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm), and malaria.
What are the 4 types of diseases?
There are four main types of disease:
infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, hereditary diseases
(including both genetic diseases and non-genetic hereditary diseases), and physiological diseases. Diseases can also be classified in other ways, such as communicable versus non-communicable diseases.
What is death life?
A life that lacks any satisfaction or purpose
; a living death.
What are the six diseases?
| Number Other names for the disease Etiology(ies) | Fifth disease Erythema infectiosum Erythrovirus (Parvovirus) B19 | Sixth disease Exanthem subitum, Roseola infantum, “Sudden Rash”, rose rash of infants, 3-day fever Human Herpes Virus 6B or Human Herpes Virus 7 |
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Is Black Death leprosy?
Leprosy is the older disease
and has been reported since Biblical times. The first reported epidemic of plague occurred somewhat later, in the 6th or 7th century. Bubonic plague, or the Black Death, was the scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yesinia pestis.
What is the most infectious disease in history?
The most famous and lethal outbreak was
the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
, which lasted from 1918 to 1919 and killed between 50 to 100 million people. The disease likely influenced the course of World War I by sickening and killing soldiers.
