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Disease transmission

Disease transmission

The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens. When transmission is within the same species, the mode can be horizontal (disease transmission, horizontal) or vertical (disease transmission, vertical).


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Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

It is shown Natural selection is wrong due to transmission of harmful genes http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/books/philosophy/Natural_selection.pdf ... 200 births. Examples are cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, Huntington's disease, and hereditary hemochromatosis” The study, led by a pediatrician ...

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by gamila
Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
Replies: 34
Views: 1372

Natural selection is proven wrong

... generation of new species it not part of its remit 3) NS deals with the transmission of favorable traits and the eradication of unfavorable traits ... births . Examples are cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, Huntington's disease, and hereditary hemochromatosis” 4) Now some people seem to think ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16273

Help! Can't figure out what to do!

... for the infection to be transmitted from person to person. So the transmission rate of measles would be high, leading to the infection of a ... would be more dispersed. This would make it more difficult for the disease to spread from person to person before its original host dies. So ...

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by Cerebral_Artist
Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:15 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Help! Can't figure out what to do!
Replies: 5
Views: 879

Help! Can't figure out what to do!

... to explain why. The more pathgoens the more complicated and extreme the disease becomes? The transmission rate I assume will be higher for diptheria since it requires less pathogens to ...

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by Cerebral_Artist
Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:18 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Help! Can't figure out what to do!
Replies: 5
Views: 879

Sickle Cell Anemia

... since the life-cycle of the parasite is not interrupted in any way and transmission is still possible. It’s just that some infected individuals don’t get as sick from their disease. Try some of the following: 1: Williams TN. Human red blood cell polymorphisms ...

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by blcr11
Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:36 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Sickle Cell Anemia
Replies: 3
Views: 1441
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