Diseases:Comparing

infectious and genetic diseases

Can you catch cancer?

Can you inherit the flu?

Infectious diseasesCan be caused by

___________or

___________

Which is which?

Infectious diseases

• Are contagious • and can be spread by:

__________ ____________ ___________

Infectious

diseasesSpreading can be prevented!

Viral Infectious diseases

» Flu (Influenza virus)» Pneumonia (RSV or adenovirus)» AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)» Common cold (Rhino virus)» Chicken pox (varicella-zoster virus) » Small pox (Variola major virus)» Cervical Cancer (Human papillomavirus)

Bacterial Infectious diseases

• Pneumonia (Streptocuccus or a bacillus)• Strep throat (beta-hemolytic streptococcus)• Staph infection (Staphylococcus aureous)• Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) • Food poisoning:

– Salmonella,

– E. coli,

– Botulism

• Flesh eating bacteria (Streptococcus pyogenes)

• Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)

Genetic diseases & disorders• Are not contagious

• Can be inherited through mutated genes

• Can be chromosomal aberrations

Inherited Genetic diseases• Sickle Cell anemia

• Cystic Fibrosis• Some Cancers• Huntington’s disease• Cileac disease• Lactose intolerance• Albinism

Chromosomal Disorders

• A type of genetic disorder

• not inherited on a gene

• Can tell by a karyotype

Chromosomal Genetic

Disorders• Down syndrome

• Kleinfelter syndrome

• Turner syndrome

• Cri du Chat

• Trisomy 13

• Trisomy 18

Chromosomal Genetic

disorders• Most caused by nondisjunction

Preventions? Treatments?

Bacterial Infectious diseases:

Viral infectious diseases:

Genetic diseases: