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An infectious disease or communicable disease is caused by a biological agent such as by a virus, bacterium or parasite. The vector does not have to be biological.Many infectious diseases are transmitted by droplets which enter the airway (e.g. common cold and tuberculosis).nfectious disease requires an agent and a mode of transmission (or vector). A good example is malaria, which is caused by Plasmodial parasites, chiefly Plasmodium falciparum but does not affect humans unless the vector, the Anopheles mosquito, is around to introduce the parasite into the human bloodstream.
Leprosy. NET Glossary: an infectious disease known today as Hansen's disease, historically considered incurable and disfiguring, caused by a bacterium; in the Bible the Hebrew term traditionally translated leprosy actually describes a wide range of skin conditions other than Hansen's disease.he disease is described in the Papyrus Ebers as ukhedu (the Coptic name for leprosy is tseht). It is also mentioned in ancient Indian and Japanese history. Hippocrates calls it the Phoenician disease, and Galen names it elephantiasis..