Question

What are acquired diseases? Is marasmus and cholera acquired diseases? How?​

Answer 1

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Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Children as well as adults can get infected.

In most cases, infection causes only mild diarrhoea or no symptoms at all. In 5-10% of cases, however, patients develop very severe watery diarrhoea and vomiting from 6 hours to 5 days after exposure to the bacterium. In these cases, the loss of large amounts of fluids can rapidly lead to severe dehydration. In the absence of adequate treatment, death can occur within hours.

Answer 2

Answer:

Those diseases which present after the birth in our body acquire disease like heart disease problem are called acquired diseases.

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