Cryptosporidium, or crypto for short, is a parasite that frustrates many parents each summer as
it causes small outbreaks of diarrhea in places like community pools, water parks, and water spray parks that recycle the water.
Not exact matches
He described Monkey Pox as a viral illness
caused by a group of viruses that include chicken pox and
small pox, noting that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and subsequently it had
outbreaks in the West African region.
Since then, the virus — now named for the river where it appeared — has re-emerged unpredictably, mostly in Central Africa but sometimes farther afield,
causing small but deadly
outbreaks in a village or two.
«Many chemotherapy drugs leave a
small amount of cancer stem cells that
cause a renewed
outbreak of the disease after a few years.
Other viral diseases spread by the same mosquitoes — including dengue and chikungunya — that have
caused massive epidemics south of the U.S. border have triggered only
small outbreaks in the United States.
If the
outbreaks are just the result of environmental changes, perhaps Zika was always capable of
causing serious effects, but they were rare in
small populations and only became obvious when the virus hit a lot of people.