Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs

Infectious Diseases

An Infectious disease can be defined as an syndrome due to a pathogen or its toxic product, which originate through transmission from an infected person, an infected animal, or a contaminated inanimate object to a susceptible host. An Infectious diseases is also known as Communicable diseases, or transmissible diseases, are illnesses that result from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an particular human or other animal host. Bubonic and Pneumonic Plagues are the most notorious of all Infectious diseases.

Infectious diseases

• Diphtheria.
• E. coli.
• Giardiasis.
• HIV/AIDS.
• Infectious mononucleosis.
• Influenza (flu)