Basic purpose of this lecture is to present on Diseases: How they affect us. Disease are acquired by: Genetic causes – inherited from parents; Microbes – infection from a virus, bacteria or fungus and Parasites – catch an organism that causes disease condition – e.g. malaria. The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body. For this reason, diseases are associated with dysfunctioning of the body’s normal homeostatic process.
Diseases: How they affect us
