Air born disease

2. Name: Roshanay Saeed
Roll No: 018
Department: Ms Zoology 2nd
Semester
Presented To: Dr. Sadaf Ilyas
Topic: Air Born Diseases

3. What is Air-Borne Disease?
Airborne viruses can become suspended in the air, usually when an
infected person coughs or sneezes.
They can then be inhaled by unsuspecting people, resulting in new
infections viruses that spread through the air can affect both
animals and humans.
An airborne virus tends to spread easily and can be more difficult
to control than pathogens, microscopic causes of diseases that
spread in other ways.
Very few diseases can be transmitted through the air.

4. Types of Air-borne Diseases
Airborne diseases are of multiple types and
varieties.
There is a range of air-borne diseases, many of
which keep evolving with time by adapting to the
environment.
The most common airborne diseases are:
Influenza
Common Cold
Mumps

6. Influenza
We all face cough or cold (flu), at least once in our lives.
This flu starts affecting us even before there are any visible symptoms.
It spreads throughout the body and weakens the immune system.
As there are multiple forms of flu and they can evolve, it becomes
difficult to identify them and provide vaccinations for such diseases.

7. Common Cold
It is the most common type of air-borne disease.
Everyone is susceptible to catch cold many times in
their life. In the US, every year there are more than a
million cases of the common cold.
The most common virus responsible for the cold in the
US is the rhinovirus.

8. Mumps
These are highly infectious and are prone to
spread before you can understand the
symptoms.
It takes 5 days or more for symptoms to
show. With the available vaccination, the
spread of mumps has been controlled
largely.
Its spread is now limited among people
living in congested areas.

9. Chicken Pox
Chicken Pox spreads through the Varicella-Zoster virus.
The symptoms appear after 21 days with rashes, such viral infection
mostly happens only once to everyone in a lifetime.
Due to certain reactions, it may develop again in the form of shingles.
These are very painful. It can also cause chickenpox to someone, who
has never had chickenpox.

10. Measles
Another highly communicable disease
whose virus keeps suspending in the air or
sits on contaminated surfaces for hours is
measles.
It can infect a healthy person before or after
four days of the occurrence of rashes.
A total of 140,000 people died due to
measles in 2018.
The vaccine available for measles has saved
more than 23 million people from 2000 to
2018.
It was observed that the infected people
were the ones without vaccinations.

11. Whooping Cough
Also known as Pertussis, whooping cough enlarges the air ducts and
transforms into a deadly cough.
It is highly infective in the first couple of weeks of cough. Every year,
there are 24 million cases of pertussis and about 160,700 dying of it.

12. Symptoms
Many air-borne diseases have the same symptoms as
flu or the common cold.
Symptoms for air-borne disease include:
• Cough
• Cold
• Running nose
• Chest congestion
• Sinus
• Headache
• Body aches
• Loss of strength
• Stuffy throat
• Tremors
• High body temperature

13. Treatment
Treatment of air-borne diseases varies with the type. Some common treatment methods
include:
Hospitalization
As air-borne diseases spread quickly, it is very difficult to control them. Only through
correct precautionary measures or vaccination, the rate of its progression can be
slowed down.
Vaccination
Vaccines are the most important preventive measure to safeguard oneself from
getting infected. Currently, there are vaccinations available for diseases like Measles,
Mumps, Chicken Pox, and Flu.
Hygiene
Personal and social hygiene is very important. It decreases the spread of these air-
borne diseases. Maintain a safe distance in public, wear face masks, and use tissues
or handkerchiefs while sneezing or coughing.