Besides falling ill with one of these diseases you may hurt yourself in many other ways. You may sprain your ankle, break your leg or cut your finger. If you cut your finger you must stop the bleeding by putting a handage on it. In serous cases of accidents you must ring for an ambulance. Some diseases are infectious. For example infectious diseases are most common children's diseases such as measles, mumps, scarlet fever and chicken pox. Some diseases can be vaccinated against. Not all diseases are infectious. A very widely spread present-day trouble is allergy. It means that people are over-sensitive to certain things. Many people suffer from heart diseases. It is not rare that a person has a heart attack or a stroke. Another very serious problem is cancer. It is in many caces not cureable. Hospitals and clinics The word hospital comes from the Latin word hospitals, which means a house of guests. The
You may sprain your ankle, break your leg, cut your finger of graze your knee. You may also have a nosebleed or a heart attack Quite a number of diseases are infectious. We can get these diseases from people already ill with the disease or infected food or animals. Most common infectious diseases are such children's diseases as measles, mumps, scarlet fever and chicken pox. Some diseases have become more rare because children and grown-ups can be vaccinated against them for example polio, diphtheria, smallpox. Tuberculosis (TB) was almost stamped out, but now it is returning, having become resistant to many medicines that were used to cure it years ago. The most infectious disease in the Middle Ages was plague, now AIDS has replaced it. It is a serious problem and kills millions of people every year. This is a disease that cannot be cured yet but scientists and doctors are working on this problem. Not all the diseases are infectious
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