Are there any communicable diseases that cause cough, cold, leg pain, and recurrent fever?
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I think you should seek a second opinion.  Sometimes pediatricians are quick to dismiss b/c they see so many of the same things all the time.  It could be something more serious (though I have no idea).  A friend of mine is in the process of getting over an extremely rare disease, and he wasn't properly diagnosed until he was taken to one of the best hospitals in the country.  Sometimes it takes some insistence and a clean pair of eyes to get to the root of the problem.  Best of luck with your kids!
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Pneumonia symptoms include cough productive of sputum (usually green or yellow), high fever (above 101 F), some shortness of breath. Night sweats are also often present, though not always. Also if you are smoking, that could be making thigns far worse. Xray is very helpful with diagnosis.  Hope that helps a bit, though I will still say you should see a doctor if you are concerned
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I think maybe you are asking about the para-influenza virus?  I've never heard it referred to as paraflu.  At any rate, para-influenza is the virus that causes the croup.\n\nThe main symptom is usually a dry, bark-like cough.  It can cause fever, respiratory problems, etc. just like any other virus.  If it is a child that is affected, of course the problem can be more serious.  If a child has asthma or lives with smokers, she is at a greater risk of having more difficulty.  So, to answer your question, the main warning sign to look for would be difficulty breathing.
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Encephalitis?  This is an infection of the brain and is a serious illness.  Viruses like measles, mumps, chicken pox may cause encephalitis shortly after you become ill.  You can also get encephalitis from a virus that you have had for many years - an example would be herpes simplex which is the same virus that causes cold sores.  It may lie dormant in your body for years.  Another way to get encephalitis is from insect or animal bites that are carrying a certain virus.  To sum this up and give you an answer to your question......cold sores do not cause encephalitis, the virus causes the disease just as it caused the cold sore.  Hope this helps.
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There are two common types of disease. Bacterial and viral. People become sick by either being exposed to a large amount of a particular germ (bacterial or viral) or being exposed to one their immune system doesn't yet know how to fend off.\n\nWhy do people often get a runny nose and a cough/sneeze? When your body is fighting a disease, it builds up excess waste in the lungs (especially if it's a respiratory disease) the body removes this waste bay causing you either to sneeze or cough or making your nose run.\n\nWhy do people get a fever? A common way for your body to fight an infection is to overheat your body so that the bacteria or virus will no longer be able to survive.
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disease that can be transmitted globally
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Some of the things they faced was Pneumonia, whooping cough, measles, small pox and various other miscellaneous sicknesses and diseases caused many deaths. Cholera, caused by drinking infected water consumption" or tuberculosis. Heat, dust, haevy rain, high rivers to cross, wagons breaking down, heat stroke, lack of food and water, and Indian's.
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Symptoms of the flu include fever of 100° to 104°, which can reach 106° when symptoms first develop. Fever is usually continuous, but it may come and go. Fever may be lower in older adults than in children and younger adults. \nShaking chills, body aches and muscle pain (often severe), commonly in the back, arms, or legs, headache, pain when you move your eyes, fatigue, a general feeling of sickness (malaise), and loss of appetite, a dry cough, runny nose, and a dry or sore throat.
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In humans, avian flu viruses cause similar symptoms to other types of flu. [21] These include fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, conjunctivitis and, in severe cases, severe breathing problems and pneumonia that may be fatal. The severity of the infection will depend to a large part on the state of the infected person's immune system and if the victim has been exposed to the strain before, and is therefore partially immune. In one case, a boy with H5N1 experienced diarrhea followed rapidly by a coma without developing respiratory or flu-like symptoms, suggesting non-standard symptoms.
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Examples of problems that are more serious include:\n\nA severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Severe allergic reactions are not common but can be life-threatening and require emergency care. Signs or symptoms may include: \nShock, which may occur if the circulatory system cannot get enough blood to the vital organs.\nCoughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, or feeling of fullness in the mouth or throat.\nSwelling of the lips, tongue, ears, eyelids, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and mucous membranes (angioedema).\nLightheadedness and confusion.\nNausea, diarrhea, and stomach cramps.\nHives and reddening of the skin. These symptoms often occur with other symptoms of a severe reaction.\nA toxic reaction to a single sting or bite. Spiders or insects that may cause this include: \nBlack widow spider.\nBrown recluse spider.\nHobo spider.\nScorpion.\nPuss caterpillar (woolly slug).\nA toxic reaction to multiple stings or bites from a bee, wasp, or fire ant. \nA bee leaves it stinger behind and then dies after stinging. Africanized honeybees, the so-called killer bees, are more aggressive than common honeybees and often attack together in great numbers.\nWasps, including hornets and yellow jackets, can sting over and over. Yellow jackets cause the greatest number of allergic reactions.\nA fire ant attaches to a person by biting with its jaws, then, pivoting its head it stings from its abdomen in a circular pattern at multiple sites.\nA large skin reaction at the site of the bite or sting. \nA skin infection at the site of the bite or sting. \nSerum sickness, a reaction to the medications (antiserum) used to treat a bite or sting. Serum sickness may cause hives and flu-like symptoms 7 to 14 days after the use of antiserum. \nA virus infection. Infected mosquitoes can spread the West Nile virus to people, causing an inflammation of the brain (encephalitis). For more information, see the topic West Nile Virus. \nA parasite infection. Infected mosquitoes can spread malaria. For more information, see the topic Malaria.
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No. Germs cause infections that cause the cold and flu. If there are airborn germs, you can catch them that way, or if you touch a doorknob after someone else, and they have the cold or flu, you can get it that way too.
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your mom is infected with a virus, her immune system is trying to fight it so that is whats causing the fever and body pain. when i had the chicken pox at age 5, i was also ill with a fever and body pains, there is not much difference if your older besides a higher white blood cell count and better immune system.
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Any foreign body in the lungs virus, bacteria, food, dust, etc. is going to make you cough. This is the natural defense mechanism of the lungs. Generally, the primary symptoms of TB are significant weight loss, hemoptysis(coughing up blood), fever, and night sweats. TB can easily be diagnosed with a PPD skin test. TB is highly contagious so it needs to be treated immediately. \n\nHope this helps.
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both typhi and paratyphi can cause typhoid fever, once suspected antibiotics are started asap, so repeat testing can become a bit confusing. widal is not the best of the tests, since it can be positive even for prior infections, I would finish the antibiotic course, repeat blood cultures (best so far for diagnosis and better than widal anyways) if the fevers are persisting and consider things like uti, pneumonia etc as a possible cause of fever too. good luck
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bordetella pertusis\ntrypanosoma gambiensis\nneiserria gonnorheae\ntreponema pallidum\nclostridium botulinum\nplasmodium vivax\nsalmonela thippi\ndiplococcus pneumonia
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If you touch something that has a virus or bacteria that causes a cold, and you touch something that you are eating, or if you rub your eyes or your mouth, that bacteria will be introduced to your systems. Since there are over 200 types of colds, it is unlikely that you will be immune to even half of them.
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The common cold (also known as "acute nasopharyngitis") is a mild viral infectious disease of the nose and throat; the upper respiratory system. Symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, running/blocked nose (often these occur simultaneously, or one in each nostril); scratchy, sore, or phlegmy throat; coughing; headache; and tiredness. Colds typically last three to five days, with residual coughing lasting up to three weeks. As its name suggests, it is the most common of all human diseases, infecting subjects at an average rate of slightly over one infection per year per person. Infection rates greater than three infections per year per person are not uncommon in some populations. Children and their caretakers are at a higher risk, probably due to the high population density of schools and the fact that transmission to family members or caretakers is highly efficient.\n\nThe common cold belongs to the upper respiratory tract infections. It is different from influenza, a more severe viral infection of the respiratory tract that shows the additional symptoms of rapidly rising fever, chills, and body and muscle aches. While the common cold itself is hardly life threatening, its complications, such as pneumonia, can very well be.