What is a disease? It can be grouped as many different things, but essentially it is something that makes us feel unwell. Normally it can be treated, but on the odd occasion, some diseases cannot be cured. There are many treatments available for people, including prescribed pills, and over the counter medicines, to the more unique ways like chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which are used for more serious illnesses.
Communicable Diseases
Find out what a communicable disease is, and the different types of disease this includes.
Disease Transmission
How a communicable disease can be transferred from human to human, or from animal to human.
Differences Between Bacteria & Viruses
They look similar, but what's the differences between a bacteria cell and a virus cell?
Pathogen Life Cycle
How long a pathogen stays alive, what it does to reproduce, and more.
The Lytic Cycle
One of two ways that pathogens can reproduce, the lytic cycle is explained here.
The Lysogenic Cycle
One of two ways that pathogens can reproduce, the lysogenic cycle is explained here.
Microorganisms
What a microorganism is, what the common ones are, and also a small look under the microscope.
The Immune System
Find out about the immune system, and the different lines of defence your body has.
Malaria
A protist disease, Malaria is transmitted through a female mosquito biting you.
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus)
MRSA is often caught while in hospital, and is a type of thrush, but is also a superbug.
HIV/AIDS
A sexually transmitted disease, and also an autoimmune disease, it is contracted through same-sex intercourse.
Cancer
The big C, cancer will happen to 1:2 of us, and there are many different types of what we call cancers.
Antibiotics
Developed as penicillin during the first half of the 20th Century, antibiotics help remove bacterial pathogens from our body.
Lines of Defence
Our body has three lines of defence, starting with our hair and nails, and then internally.
Antiseptics
Antiseptics work to clean the areas around a wound, or even the preparation tables before surgery.
How Vaccinations Work
A look at how vaccinations work, from their inception to implementing them in the wider world.
Drugs Trials
How a drugs trials leads to everyone having access to them.
Ernst Boris Chain
Along with Sir Alexander Fleming, Chain helped to develop penicilling in cultures, in order to use penicillin in the wider world of medicine.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovering penicillin in , Sir Alexander Fleming was one of the forefathers of antibiotics.
Sir Howard Florey
Howard Florey was one of several scientists that worked with Sir Alexander Fleming on culturing penicillin for mass use.
Edward Jenner
Considered the forefather of vaccinations, Edward Jenner pioneered the first vaccines for smallpox, realising that cowpox would clear it up after a matter of days, after a series of tests on a young boy.
Joseph Lister
A British scientist who discovered antiseptics, and also introduced antisepsis, where the areas around the surgery are cleaned before it took place.
Louis Pasteur
Considered the founder of antiseptics and who formulated a way to remove pathogens and bacteria from food and drink, Louis Pasteur was a chemist during the 1800s.
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