5 most infectious diseases

Infectious disease is the most frightening thing, infectious disease is a disease caused by microorganisms, both bacteria, viruses, and fungi, which can be transmitted from one patient to a healthy person and cause pain as the source of transmission.

The best way to block infection is to avoid, namely through immunization or maintain fitness in order to increase endurance. In general, there are several types of the most contagious diseases:

Tuberculosis

As with any flu, germs of tuberculosis (TB) spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or spits. Socially, people with TB connoted as a dangerous person because of his illness spread to other people so isolated from its surroundings.
TB patients in Indonesia the third highest in the world after India and China. Symptoms of TB include coughing up phlegm, fever, sputum mixed blood, drastic weight loss, chest pain, shortness of breath, and sweating at night. However, if patients taking the drug disciplined and regularly went to the doctor, the disease will be cured of TB.

Hepatitis

In Indonesia, many common types of hepatitis are hepatitis A, B, and C. Hepatitis A mild compared to most other types of hepatitis and now, even the existing vaccine. Transmission occurs through eating or drinking contaminated feces of patients, such as eating fruits and vegetables that are not cooked or drink with ice cubes that process is contaminated.
Viral hepatitis B and C is transmitted through blood and infected bodily fluids, including blood transfusions, sexual contact, tattooing, body piercing, and injection. To prevent infection, avoid using shared tools that could be contaminated with blood, such as razors, toothbrushes, syringes, tattooing or piercing tool; do safe sex, such as condoms; and Hepatitis B.

Malaria

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the plasmodium parasite that lives in red blood cells of humans and is transmitted by mosquitoes of malaria, Anopheles. This parasitic disease is still endemic in several regions in Indonesia.
Unlike the mosquitoes causing dengue fever, the mosquito that spreads malaria breed in pools of natural water, such as around the river, rice paddies, fields, and forests, including in areas of the former inundation. The disease is easily recognizable from cold symptoms (chills and shivering) and intermittent fever.

Chicken pox

Almost everyone has had chickenpox as a child. This is because the varicella virus causes chickenpox zooster is among the most easily transmitted from person to person. This virus can also cause herpes. Although incurable, do not underestimate the disease that has been known for hundreds of years this person because complications can occur a number of diseases. Former fluid-filled bubbles can leave pockmarks that interfere with performance.
Transmission of smallpox occurs through saliva splashes ill person or through a discharge when the bubbles in the skin breaks. Patients can transmit the disease 24 hours prior to abnormalities in the skin begin until seven days later. Because it is so contagious, the patient should be isolated until they recover.

influenza

It felt almost all people on earth are very familiar with the disease is most contagious. The influenza virus can move easily from one person to another, as we move from one site to another. Transmission occurs by direct contact, such as sneezing and coughing, or indirect transmission such as touching a doorknob that has been contaminated with the virus.
Most influenza viruses cause mild symptoms of muscle pain, cough, clean, fever, headache, fatigue, and nasal congestion. However, there are also symptoms of influenza can be deadly, like the Spanish flu that killed more than 40 million people worldwide between 1918 and 1920. What to watch is that the flu virus to date continues to mutate and cause a variety of diseases, such as bird flu or swine flu.