Symptoms: Fever and a red skin rash, can be fatal if complications arise
Transmission: Inhalation of droplets from sneezes and coughs
Treatment: Most young children are vaccinated against measles.
Symptoms: Flu-like illness (virus attacks the body’s immune cells), AIDS
Transmission: Sexual contact or exchange of body fluids eg. blood through sharing needles
Treatment: Antiretroviral drugs
Symptoms: Fever, abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhoea
Transmission: Food prepared in unhygienic conditions
Treatment: In the UK, poultry are vaccinated against Salmonella to control the spread
Symptoms: Thick yellow or green discharge from the vagina or penis and pain on urinating
Transmission: Sexual contact
Treatment: treatment with antibiotics or the use of a barrier method of contraception such as a condom/treated with the antibiotic penicillin until many resistant strains appeared
Symptoms: episodes of fever and can be fatal
Transmission: Vectors (mosquitoes)