5/21/11

what causes infectious diseases such as chicken pox, mumps, common cold, and hepatitis?


what causes infectious diseases such as chicken pox, mumps, common cold, and hepatitis?

Answer by rainbow_n_starlite
a virus

Answer by TweetyBird
Virsues cause these. Chicken pox - varicella zoster virus. Mumps - mumps virus. Common cold - more than 200 rhinoviruses. Which hepatitis? Each is caused by a virus that bears its name. For example, hep A - HAV (hepatitis A virus).

Answer by jumpingjellybean
viruses spread by droplets in the air for the first 3. I'm not sure how you get hepatitis though

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