infectivity

infectivity

[infektiv′itē]

Etymology: L, inficere, to stain

the ability of a pathogen to spread rapidly from one host to another.

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infectivity

ability of an agent to infect.

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Patient discussion about infectivity.

Q. Can Alcoholism makes you vulnerable to intestine infections? A friend of mine is a heavy drinker, he had something like 5 infections in the past year. Is it connected?

A. yes

Q. How to prevent getting a bladder infection? I am worried about getting another bladder infection like I just had now. I am during my second trimester. How can I avoid getting it again?

A. drink more cranberry juice,its 100% natural, and wont harm the baby in anyway.

Q. What are the early symptoms of an HIV infection? Can I define it from other diseases? I heard that there is a sore throat and fever- but that can be anything…anything special?

A. There are symptoms that can occur 2-4 weeks after the infection. Sore throat is one of them, fever, swollen lymph nodes.
But having HIV is not something that you want to sit around and guess about. Go to your doctor or the closest clinic and get tested so that in the case that you have contracted it you don't pass it to someone else. And any way those symptoms can be because of thousands of other infections.