What is Aplastic Anemia?

When you have the rare but treatable disorder known as aplastic anemia, your marrow -- the spongy stuff inside your bones -- stops making new blood...

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Abscess

A skin abscess is a tender mass generally surrounded by a colored area from pink to deep red. Other risk factors for abscess include exposure to di...

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Yellow Fever

For some people, yellow fever has no initial symptoms, while for others, the first symptoms appear from three to six days after exposure to the vir...

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What is Tularemia?

The way you become infected with the disease influences the type of symptoms you’ll have and how severe they may be. But just because you’re expose...

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Thalassemia

Thalassemia is an inherited blood condition. If you inherit two or more copies of abnormal genes from your parents, you may get mild to severe thal...

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Rubella

Rubella is caused by a virus. Rubella spreads when someone who is infected coughs or sneezes tiny germ- filled droplets into the air and onto surfa...

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What is Rabies?

Rabies is a virus that attacks the central nervous system. If you’ve been exposed to rabies in the past few months, they’ll likely run a number of ...

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