Talk:List of infectious diseases

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Reason why botulism was removed:
Botulism is almost always not an infection. It is caused by a toxin that poisons the body - no live C. botulinum bacteria required. There are relatively rare cases of young infants becoming infected due to their fragile and naive immune systems. This is commonly called "Floppy baby syndrome" or "infant botulism". However, I am not sure what current pediatricians call the ailment, so I have not listed it yet. See here for more info. --maveric149

Reason why food poisoning was removed:
Most cases of food poisoning are in fact true poisonings (hence the name) that are caused by bacteria produced toxins. The only major exception is Salmonellosis, which is a true infection and is already listed (pray you never get this one, it is nasty). --maveric149

I notice that Typhus redirects to Typhoid fever. Are they in fact the same disease? If so, please move Typhus to the bacterial section, since Typhoid fever is bacterial in origin. Also, the thought occurs to me that perhaps we should have a section on diseases/maladies caused by microbial agents, with no infection necessary (perhaps call the secion "toxiflora" or somesuch?). That way, we could list botulism, food poisoning, mycotoxins, etc... Just an idea... Pgdudda

Typhoid fever and Typhus are completely different diseases. Typhoid fever is caused by various strains of Salmonella: Typhus is caused by various Rickettsiae and can be further divided into epidemic (louse-borne) typhus, endemic typhus (flea-borne or murine) and scrub typhus (chigger-borne). I'm about to attempt unredirection... Someone else 12:14 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)

MRSA is methicillin-resistant 'Staphylococcus aureus', a bacterium, not a disease. I've changed it to MRSA infection, since it can cause so many different infections. Someone else 14:16 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)

What about Monkeypox? Where should that go? I'm not sure where to put it. --DanielCD 21:17, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

These lists are incomplete and not really that helpful. Looks like people have noticed this before. Also removed explodicitis from the viral section. Dionisio23 01:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)