Diseases caused by Virus

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Disease: Dengue

Name of the Virus: RNA virus of genus Flavivirus

Incubation: 3 to 14 days

Affected organ: Whole body particularly head, eyes, and joints

Symptoms: Pain in eyes, muscles, heads and joint , fever , rash

Prevention: no specific antiviral drug is available, however symptom based treatment is done

Disease: Influenza (flu)

Name of the Virus: Mixo virus

Incubation: 1 to 4 days

Affected organ: Whole body

Symptoms: Suffocation, sneezing, restlessness

Prevention: Paracetamol may help cure the symptoms and an annual vaccine can help prevent the flu and limit it’s complications.

Disease: Polio

Name of the Virus: Polio Virus

Incubation: 7 to 14 days

Affected organ: Throat, backbone nerve

Symptoms: Fever, body pain, backbone and intestine cells are destroyed

Prevention: OPV

Disease: Mumps

Name of the Virus: Mumps virus

Incubation: 12-25 days

Affected organ: the salivary glands.

Symptoms: Painful enlargement of parotid and salivary glands.

Prevention: Mamps-vaccine isolation

Disease: AIDS

Name of the Virus: HIV

Incubation: 9 months to 3 years

Affected organ: defensive system (WBC) Lymphocytes

Symptoms: Immune system of body became weak.

Prevention: Zidovudine

Disease: Chickungunya

Name of the Virus: RNA genus of Alphavirus

Incubation: 1 to 12 days

Symptoms: headache, fatigue, digestive complaints and conjunctivitis

Prevention: No specific treatment, however supportive case through drugs like naproxen, paracetamol is done

Disease: Chickenpox

Name of the Virus: vericella zoster virus

Incubation: 12-20 days

Affected organ: Whole body

Symptoms: High fever, radish eruption on body

Prevention: Varicella vaccine

Disease: Sars

Name of the Virus: Sars COVID-2

Incubation: 1-14 days

Symptoms: Fever, coughing, headache, sore throat , shortness of breath

Prevention: No licensed vaccine

Disease: Rabies

Name of the Virus: Rabies virus

Incubation: 10 days to1-3 months

Affected organ: Nervous syatem

Symptoms: sever headache and high fever, spasm in throat and chest muscles, fears from water.

Prevention: Immunisation of dogs

Disease: Smallpox

Name of the Virus: Variola virus

Incubation: 12 days

Affected organ: Whole body

Symptoms: light fever, rash, scaps and failing pockmarks are left

Prevention: Smallpox Vaccine

Disease: Ebola Virus desease

Name of the Virus: Ebola virus

Incubation: 2 to 21 days

 Symptoms: Haemorrhagic fever, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, diarrhoea, kidney and liver dysfunction

Prevention: No licensed vaccine available, immune therapies are done currently

Disease: Swine flu

Name of the Virus: H1N1 flu virus

Incubation: 1-4 days

Symptoms: Fever with or without chill. Sore throat, dyspneat, myalgia, diarrhea vomiting and dizziness

Prevention: Oseltamivir, Zonamivir are antiviral drugs vaccines are available against this disease