Infectious and Rare Diseases

Respiratory and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Rhinovirus, coronavirus and adenovirus are the leading causes of the common cold. Upper Respiratory Infections spread from one person to another through aerosol droplets and direct hand-to-hand contact. Influenza viruses infect the upper respiratory system and even spread to the lungs causing pneumonia. Infection is the capture of an organism's body tissues by disease causing agents and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce. In childhood viral infections are rarely fatal, and are almost never serious. Infectious diseases in infants are caused by infectious agents like viruses, bacteria, nematodes, arthropods such as ticks, fungi like ringworm, and other macro parasites.