List of Different Human Diseases Caused by Bacteria viruses Protozoa and

Fungi
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Diseases Caused by Protozoa

#1 Malaria
Symptoms: Fever with shivering

Parasites: Plasmodium

Carrier: Female Anopheles Mosquitoes

Affected Organs: Red Blood Corpuscle (RBC) and Liver.

#2 Kala-ajar
Symptoms: High fever

Parasite: Leismania-donovani

Carrier: Sand Flies

Affected Organs: Bone marrow

#3 Sleeping Sickness
Symptoms: Fever with severe sleep

Parasite: Trypanosoma

Carrier: Tse-Tse Flies

Affected Organs: Brain

#4 Diarrhoea
Symptoms: Mucous and Diarrhoea with blood

Parasite: Entamoeba histolytica

Spread Through: contaminated food or drinking-water, or from person-to-

person:

Affected Organs: Intestine

Disease Caused by Bacteria:

#1 Tetanus
Symptoms: High fever, spasm in body, Closing of jaws etc.

Name of Bacteria: Clostridium Tetani

Affected Organs: Nervous system

#2 Cholera
Symptoms: Contentious stool and vomiting

Name of bacteria: Vibrio Cholerae

Way of Transmission: One can infected by drinking water or eating food

contaminated by the bacterium

Affected Organs: Intestine

#3 Typhoid
Symptoms: High fever, Headache

Name of bacteria: Salmonella typhosa

Way of Transmission: It is transmitted by consumption of contaminated

food or water.

Affected Organs: Intestine

#4 Tuberculosis (TB)
Symptoms: Repeated coughing.

Name of bacteria: Microbacterium tuberculosis

Way of Transmission: It is spread through the air or the flu. Someone having

TB who coughs, sneezes, talks, laughs, or sings then germs are released.

Affected Organs: Lungs

#5 Diphtheria
Symptoms: Difficulty in respiration and suffocation.

Name of bacteria: Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Way of Transmission: It spreads through respiratory droplets, like from

coughing or sneezing.

Affected Organs: Respiratory tube

#6 Plague
Symptoms: Very high fever, muscular eruption on the body.

Name of bacteria: Pasteuralla pesties

Way of Transmission: Bite of infected vector fleas like rat.

Affected Organs: Lungs, area between the two legs.

#7 Whooping cough
Symptoms: Continuous coughing

Name of bacteria: Hemophilis pertusis

Way of Transmission: coughing or sneezing of infected persons

Affected Organs: Respiratory system

#8 Pneumonia
Symptoms: High fever, swelling in lungs

Name of bacteria: Diplococcus pheumoniae

Way of Transmission: spread via air-borne droplets from a cough or sneeze

Affected Organs: Lungs

#9 Leprosy
Symptoms: Spot on body, nerves affected

Name of bacteria: Mycrobacterium leprae

Way of Transmission: close contact with someone with untreated leprosy

over many months

Affected Organs: Nervous system Skin

#10 Gonorrhea
Symptoms: Swelling in urinary path

Name of bacteria: Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

Affected Organs: Urinary path.

Disease Caused by Viruses:

#1 AIDS
Symptoms: Immune system of body became weak

Name of virus: HIV

Way of Transmission: through sexual behaviors and needle or syringe use.

blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk

Affected Organs: Defensive system , White Blood Corpuscle WBC

#2 Dengue Fever
Symptoms: Pain in eyes, muscles, head and joints.

Name of virus: DENV

Way of Transmission: Bite of an infected mosquito

Affected Organs: Whole body particularly head, eyes and joints.

#3 Polio
Symptoms: Fever, body pain, backbone and intestine cells are destroyed.

Name of virus: Pilio virus

Way of Transmission: direct contact with someone infected with the virus

Affected Organs: Nerve, backbone

#4 Influenza (flu)
Symptoms: Suffocation, sneezing, restlessness.

Name of virus: Miso virus

Way of Transmission: direct contact, by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols.

Affected Organs: Whole body

#5 Chicken pox
Symptoms: High fever, redish eruption on body

Name of virus: Variola virus

Way of Transmission: by direct contact (touching the rash), droplet or air

born spread (coughing and sneezing) of vesicle fluid

Affected Organs: Whole body

#6 Small pox
Symptoms: Light fever, eruption of bile on body

Name of virus: Varcella virus

Way of Transmission: direct deposition of large, infective airborne droplets

of saliva onto the nasal, oral or pharyngeal mucosal membranes

Affected Organs: Whole body

#7 Rabies
Symptoms: The patient becomes mad with sever headache and high fever.

Name of virus: Rabies virus

Way of Transmission: through a bite from any infected animal or by intaking

saliva of infected animals

Affected Organs: Nervous system

#8 Measles
Symptoms: Radish eruptions on body, Reddish eyes, pain in eyes. Yellow

urine, Eyes and skin become yellow.

Name of virus: Morbeli virus

Way of Transmission: through coughing and sneezing

Affected Organs: Whole body.

Disease Caused by fungus :

#1 Asthma
Symptoms: Shortness of breath, Chest tightness or pain, increasing

difficulty breathing

Name of fungi : Aspergillus fumigatus

Affected Organs: Lungs

#2 Athlete’s Foot
Symptoms: cracking and peeling skin on your feet, most commonly

between your toes and on your soles.

Name of fungi: Tenia Pades.

Affected Organs: feet, toes soles.

#3 Scabies
Symptoms: tiny blisters or bumps on skin, Itching.

Name of fungi: Acarus scabies

Affected Organs: Skin

#4 Baldness
Symptoms: Hair of the head start to fall.

Name of fungi: Taenia capitis

Affected Organs: Hair of the head

#5 Ringworm
Symptoms: Round red spot on skin

Name of fungi: Trycophyton Lerucosum

Affected Organs: skin