Fever - Better Health Channel.
Fever is a rise in body temperature, usually caused by infection. Normal body temperature is around 37° C but can vary. A mild fever (up to 39°C ) can help the immune system to get rid of the infection.Most cases of mild fever resolve by ... [... more]
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Psittacosis - parrot fever
Psittacosis is a type of lung infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci. This germ is commonly carried by birds of the parrot family including budgerigars, lovebirds and parakeets. This disease can be readily treated with ... [... more]
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Kissing and your health
Kissing offers many health benefits but may also transmit a small number of disease-causing agents such as bacteria and viruses. Colds, glandular fever (kissing disease), herpes infection, warts, hepatitis B and meningococcal disease may all be ... [... more]
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Brucellosis
Brucellosis (sometimes known as undulant fever, Malta fever, rock fever, Cyprus fever or Gibraltar fever), is a rare bacterial disease. Human transmission occurs through contact with animals or animal products contaminated with these ... [... more]
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Ear problems in children
Middle ear infections (otitis media) are common in babies and young children. Symptoms include earache, fever and deafness. Middle ear infections can be triggered by a cold. Mild cases clear up by themselves but more severe infections need ... [... more]
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Immunisations
Paracetamol (which in some countries is called acetaminophen) has been safely used for many years to help with mild to moderate pain and fever for babies over 1 month of age, young children, older children and adults. But if too much paracetamol ... [... more]
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Marburg haemorrhagic fever
Marburg haemorrhagic fever is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Viewed under electron microscopy, the viruses show particles shaped like elongated filaments, ... [... more]
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Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
The disease was first described in the Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean haemorrhagic fever. In 1969 it was recognized that the pathogen causing Crimean haemorrhagic fever was the same as that responsible for an illness identified in 1956 ... [... more]
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease that has caused large epidemics in Africa and the Americas. It can be recognized from historic texts stretching back 400 years. Infection causes a wide spectrum of disease, from mild symptoms to severe illness and ... [... more]
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Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever
Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection that causes a severe flu-like illness, and sometimes a potentially lethal complication called dengue haemorrhagic fever. Global incidence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades. Dengue is found in ... [... more]
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Protection at work
Q fever was discovered after an outbreak of an illness that caused fever in abattoir workers in 1935. It was first called 'Query Fever'. It is mainly a disease of people who work in meat and livestock industries (farm workers and people who work ... [... more]
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What is cytomegalovirus?
Cytomegalovirus is a common virus worldwide. Healthy children and adults usually have no illness when they are infected, but some can get an illness similar to glandular fever. It can cause some major health problems. If they do become unwell, ... [... more]
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