CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

An epidemic disease is one that is continuously present in any given population in nascent form. Its rate of occurrence as an illness–which is to say, its prevalence–may differ according to the season of the year and other variables, but its causal agent is almost always found within the locality. Heading the list of today’s endemic, or always present, child killers are the water-borne ailments collectively known as dysentery and the diarrheal diseases. In contrast, an epidemic disease, such as smallpox in its most virulent forms (extinct since 1977 in its free-ranging state) or measles (which still exists), only occasionally attacked any given human population. The disease agents, or pathogens, which had the potential to periodically set this sort of epidemic in motion almost always came in from outside the place in which victims lived.

Computerized children epidemics diagnosis system is used to diagnosis various diseases. In medicine, diagnosis is the process of identifying a medical condition or disease by its signs, symptoms, and from the results of various diagnostic procedures. The conclusion reached through this process is called a diagnosis. The term “diagnostic criteria” designates the combination of signs, symptoms, and test results that allows the doctor to ascertain the diagnosis of the respective disease.

However, it has two distinct dictionary definitions. The first definition is “the recognition of a disease or condition by its outward signs and symptoms, while the second definition is “the analysis of the underlying physiological/biochemical cause(s) of a disease or condition

Typically, a person with abnormal symptoms will consult a physician, who will then obtain a history of the patient’s illness and examine him for signs of disease. The physician will formulate a hypothesis of likely diagnoses and in many cases will obtain further testing to confirm or clarify the diagnosis before providing treatment. Medical tests commonly performed are measuring blood pressure, checking the pulse rate, listening to the heart with a stethoscope, urine tests, fecal tests, saliva tests, blood tests, medical imaging, electrocardiogram, hydrogen breath test and occasionally biopsy

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