Hiho!I am Hepatitis C Virus.I'm from the family Flaviviridae.I get to you in blood.I use needles, piercings, tattoos and blood transfusions.I often hang around for years and can give you cirrhosis.There are vaccines for my cousins Hep A and Hep B, but not for me.
Hey, Hepatitis B Virus here.I'm from the Hepadnaviridae family.I visit many babies through their mums.I'm often sexually transitted.I get into your liver.There I get to work, giving you pain, nausea, fever and jaundice.I can hang around for years.I make you more likely to get liver cancer.
Hello there.
My name is Hepatitis A virus.
Picornaviridae is my family.
I'm pass to you through the mouth, in things like milk and seafood.
I also like poor hygiene and lots of people close together.
I love school camps.
I get into your liver.
I give you nausea, side pain, vomiting and fever.
You can vaccinate against me though.
Plus I don't hang around as long some of my cousins.
It's Alive!Watch this space
Hello.
My name is Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpesvirus, or HHV-8. I'm part of the Herpesviridae family.When I appear, people usually get a type of skin cancer called Karposi's sarcoma.
It gives you red-brown spots all over.I'm rarely seen in people with good immune systems.
I'm very common in people with HIV or AIDS.
Hello.My name is Roseolovirus.
Sometimes I'm called Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV-6) or '6th disease'.I'm part of the Herpesviridae family.I mostly infect babies and children.First you get fever, but it doesn't last long.When thats gone, I give you a rash called Exanthem subitum, or Roseola infantum.
I got my name because people thought my rashes were as red as roses.
Hi there, I'm VZV.My family is the Herpesviridae family.Most people get me as children.
I'm much more serious when I first infect you as an adult.I pick one or two nerves and only live in those.
My primary infection is called chicken pox.You get itchy spots all over.I also cause fever and rash.My recurring infections are called shingles.I give you big, red, painful blisters, but only on the parts of skin that connect to my special nerve.
Howdy.My name is CMV.
Herpesviridae is my family.
My primary illness can look alot like my cousin EBV and sometimes we get confused for each other.You may not even notice me at all.I cause lots of problems in people with weak immune systems.
My primary illness in pregnant mothers stops babies from developing properly before they are born.
Hello there, I'm EBV.
I'm a member of the Herpesviridae family.
I have double stranded DNA.My disease is called infectious mononucleosis, mono, and glandular fever.I cause sore throat and cough, fever, nausea and swollen lymph nodes.
You get very tired all the time.
In bad cases, I can swell up your liver or spleen, or infect your heart, lungs and brain.Some cancers are more common after I visit.
Hi.My name is HSV-1.I'm a double stranded DNA virus that's part of the Herpesviridae family.I live in your nerves.
I have a primary infection, then recurrent infections.
My recurrent infection causes painful red blisters around your mouth.
These are called herpes labialis, or cold sores.
Bright sun can convince me to come out again, as well as stress, sickness and menstruation.
I can also cause a deadly encephalitis, which means I infect your brain.
If I get into your eye, I can give you herpetic keratitis and make you blind.
Hello, my name is HSV-2.I'm a double stranded DNA virus (I'm made up of 2 DNA parts).I'm part of the Herpesviridae family.Us herpes viruses make our homes in your nerves.
Once we get in, we stick around for the rest of your life.I cause genital herpes, a very common STI.First you get a primary infection, with red blisters and an itching or burning as I play with your nerves.
You can also feel headache or fever.
Later on, I travel back down to visit your skin, giving you more itching and blisters.
This can happen if you are stressed, sick, or when women are menstruating.
Hi there.I'm C. granulomatis.I'm a Gram Negative rod shaped bacteria.I'm found more often in developing countries, especially in tropical places.I cause a STI with ulcers and sores that eat into you.You can call it granuloma inguinale, but I like to call it donovanosis (easier to remember).When I infect you, I get eaten up by one of your cells.
Together we make up 'donovan bodies' that can be seen under a microscope.
Hi.My name is C. crescentus.I'm Gram Negative bacteria.
I live in water or in soil, even if there's not much food about.
I'm very good at living in places with little food.
I make 2 daughters when I divide.One is called a swarmer and has a special tail for moving around.The other is called a stalked cell and has a long tube with sticky stuff at the end.
Both of these help me survive where other bacteria can't.
Hello.My name is T. whippelei.
I'm very mysterious, I don't tell anyone how I get into people.
I'm also very rare.
I like infecting older men.
I mostly infect your intestines.When I'm there, I stop you getting nutrients from food.
You get fever, weight loss, diarrhoea and cramps.
I also get into the rest of your body, into your heart, lungs, skin, and nerves.
That about wraps up bacteria, folks.If there was a species you were waiting out for but didn't see, let me know and I'll do my best to convince them to drop by.Stay tuned over the next few days for the start of the next group of little critters...Viruses
Again, let me know if there is anything special you want to see and I'll try put it on my list.Enjoy!
Hi, I'm F. tularensis.I'm a Gram Negative bacteria.I'm carried on deer flies and ticks.
I live mostly in rabbits.
I cause tularaemia, also called Rabbit fever.I have 6 different ways of hurting youMy ulceroglandular type gets lymph nodes gives you an ulcer around the bite.
My glandular type causes fever and lymph problems, without the ulcer.You get conjunctivitis with my oculoglandular type.My oropharyngeal type gives you a sore throat.I get into your lungs with my pleuropulmonary type.My typhoidal type infects your whole body.
Hi there.I'm L. interrogans.I'm a spirochete bacteria.My favourite place to live is in drinking water, which I get into through animal urine.
I cause leptospirosis.My disease has 2 stages. First I'll give you a high fever, headache and muscle ache.Later, I can give you meningitis, rash and jaundice.If the second part gets very bad, it is called Weil's disease.
Hello.
My name is B. burgdorferi.I am a Gram Negative spirochete like my cousin B. recurrentis.I'm carried by ticks, especially hard bodied ticks.I cause borreliosis, or Lyme disease.You may get rash, fever, muscle pain or headache.Sometimes I can affect your nerves.
Hello! Hello! Hello!I'm B. recurrentis.I'm also a spirochete bacteria.I'm carried by the common body louse.
I cause louse-borne relapsing fever.I cause fever, shaking, delirium and muscle ache.
I make you sick for a few days and go away.
Then I come back again for a while.
I come back over and over again, sometimes for weeks.
