|
Symptoms |
How it is spread |
Treatment |
Prevention
|
| Virus
|
| Measles
|
cold-like symptoms |
by contact with infected nasal or throat secretions (coughing or sneezing) or breathing the air that was breathed by someone with measles |
no specific medical treatment |
Community-wide vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles
|
| TMV
|
discolouration |
rubbing against healthy plants |
no cure :( |
avoid handling plants (plant seed rather than transplants), remove diseased plants, control weeds and rotate crops, and avoid planting near virus-infected plants
|
| HIV
|
- Fever and muscle pains.
- Headache.
- Sore throat.
- Night sweats.
- Mouth sores, including yeast infection (thrush)
- Swollen lymph glands.
- Diarrhea.
|
SEX |
antiretroviral medicines |
never sharing needles and using condoms the right way every time you have SEX
|