chronic disease | long-term disease | long-term illness | protracted disease

dose protraction | protraction

illness [ disease | human disease(GEMET) ]

blue disease | blue ear disease | blue-ear disease of pigs | mysterious pig disease | mysterious swine disease | mystery pig disease | new pig disease | porcine epidemical abortion | porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome | purple ears disease | MSD [Abbr.] | PRRS [Abbr.]

infectious disease [ bacterial disease | cholera | communicable disease | contagious disease | leprosy | malaria | parasitic disease | sleeping sickness | trypanosomiasis | tuberculosis | viral disease | viral diseases | yellow fever ]

Definition: Arises as a delayed or protracted response to a stressful event or situation (of either brief or long duration) of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature, which is likely to cause pervasive distress in almost anyone. Predisposing factors, such as personality traits (e.g. compulsive, asthenic) or previous history of neurotic illness, may lower the threshold for the development of the syndrome or aggravate its course, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain its occurrence. Typical features include episodes of repeated reliving of the trauma in intrusive memories ( flashbacks ), dreams or nightmares ...[+++], occurring against the persisting background of a sense of numbness and emotional blunting, detachment from other people, unresponsiveness to surroundings, anhedonia, and avoidance of activities and situations reminiscent of the trauma. There is usually a state of autonomic hyperarousal with hypervigilance, an enhanced startle reaction, and insomnia. Anxiety and depression are commonly associated with the above symptoms and signs, and suicidal ideation is not infrequent. The onset follows the trauma with a latency period that may range from a few weeks to months. The course is fluctuating but recovery can be expected in the majority of cases. In a small proportion of cases the condition may follow a chronic course over many years, with eventual transition to an enduring personality change (F62.0). | Traumatic neurosis

disease vector [ disease carrier | disease-carrying insect | vector of human diseases(GEMET) | vector-borne diseases(UNBIS) ]

protracted lease-up

The second category is a little more protracted, like infectious diseases such as SARS.

In emergency situations and protracted crises , the EC Humanitarian Office (ECHO) will help to reduce the transmission of the three diseases, and the human distress and mortality they cause by mainstreaming basic HIV/AIDS preventive and palliative measures, both in its humanitarian programmes and via its implementing partners.

51. The last outbreak of the disease, which occurred in the summer of 2000 in Evros, was attributed to animals in the Greek border regions encountering Turkish animals in the River Evros, the waters of which were low owing to the protracted drought. It is possible therefore that the herds were in contact while grazing and watering.

51. The last outbreak of the disease, which occurred in the summer of 2000 in Evros, was attributed to animals in the Greek border regions encountering Turkish animals in the River Evros, the waters of which were low owing to the protracted drought. It is possible therefore that the herds were in contact while grazing and watering.