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.
Find out what a communicable disease is, and the different types of disease this includes.
How a communicable disease can be transferred from human to human, or from animal to human.
They look similar, but what's the differences between a bacteria cell and a virus cell?
There are seven different features that make a living organism, well... alive. This simple way to remember that is here to help you.
How long a pathogen stays alive, what it does to reproduce, and more.
What a microorganism is, what the common ones are, and also a small look under the microscope.
Plants can get diseases just like humans can, and this can limit things like growth and photosynthesis.
Plants have a few tricks up their sleeves when it comes to combatting diseases.
This is a direct link to another section of the website, discussing the immune system.
Our body has three lines of defence, starting with our hair and nails, and then internally.
A protist disease, Malaria is transmitted through a female mosquito biting you.
MRSA is often caught while in hospital, and is a type of thrush, but is also a superbug.
A sexually transmitted disease, and also an autoimmune disease, it is contracted through same-sex intercourse.
The big C, cancer will happen to 1:2 of us, and there are many different types of what we call cancers.
Developed as penicillin during the first half of the 20th Century, antibiotics help remove bacterial pathogens from our body.
Antiseptics work to clean the areas around a wound, or even the preparation tables before surgery.
A look at how vaccinations work, from their inception to implementing them in the wider world.
Helping Alexander Fleming to develop penicillin, and helping to make it able to be used more widspread.
Another scientist working with Fleming to help develop penicillin for the wider world.
Discovered antiseptics and introduced antisepsis, the preparation for surgery.
Louis Pasteur was a scientist who found out a way to remove bacteria from food and drink.
