This book on Human Diseases is written with a view to meet curricular requirements of students
at undergraduate and post graduate levels of Indian Universities. Diseases are illnesses
impairing the normal physiological functioning of living organisms. The causative agents are
virus bacteria protozoans helminthes and others. The diseases chosen for this book are:
measles smallpox chickenpox AIDS Ebola Dengue cholera leprosy tuberculosis typhoid
malaria amoebiasis Diarrhoea Filariasis Cancer and Jaundice. The text describes causative
agents signs and symptoms diagnosis prevention treatment epidemiology and history of all
16 diseases. A table containing these factors has also been included for the convenience of
readers to have an immediate idea about these human diseases.
