What diseases are considered fatal
What diseases are considered fatal
Deadly diseases are not uncommon today. Although medicine has gone far ahead. But only a few diseases can take millions of lives around the world.
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Ebola haemorrhagic fever is the mostA rare, but at the same time, dangerous disease. It is characterized by severe headaches, pain in the muscles and abdomen. After a while, there is angina and diarrhea develops. Then comes a dry cough and stitching pain in the chest. A week later death occurs, as a result of bleeding or shock. This dangerous disease is transmitted through the blood of an infected person. In 9 cases out of 10 people can not be saved.
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Diseases of the cardiovascular system includea number of diseases: coronary heart disease, strokes, vein thrombosis, cerebrovascular disease. Patients die precisely from insufficiency of the heart muscle or blockage of the lumen of the vessel by a thrombus.
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Diabetes is a disease in whichviolation of insulin production. In this regard, the level of sugar in the blood of a person does not stay at a normal level. Diabetes is divided into 2 types: insulin-dependent and not insulin-dependent. At the first type of the disease, artificial insulin must be constantly taken into the body, otherwise the severe state of hyperglycemic coma may develop, and if death is not provided, the patient should not be helped. Unfortunately, this is an incurable disease.
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Oncological diseases are characterized by growthabnormal cells. Every year, cancer affects more and more people. Already in developed countries, every third person is sick. Scientists are struggling to create a drug that could prevent the growth of cancerous tumors, but the mortality rate is only increasing.
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Do not underestimate such a disease asflu. It is from him every year thousands of people die, and they received adequate and timely treatment. It all depends on the mutation of the virus, which every year becomes more aggressive and does not lend itself to vaccination.
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Poliomyelitis develops in children under 5 years of ageage. The disease is characterized by spinal paralysis. The virus affects the gray matter, which leads to pathological changes in the nervous system. Severe cases lead to muscle defects and their paralysis, which remain for the rest of their lives. Often there are lethal outcomes. Therefore, vaccinations should be given in time for children from polio.
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HIV is a "gentle killer" that kills slowlyand insidious. It affects the immune system. A person with HIV can die from a common cold. Over the past 30 years, about 25 million people have died from AIDS (the final stage of HIV). HIV infection is transmitted through the blood and through sexual contact.
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Tuberculosis is a disease caused by mycobacteria of tuberculosis. The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets. Over the past year, 1.5 million people died in the world.