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While technology and new inventions in the field of medicine has been marvelously moving ahead, there are still certain diseases that do not consist of a cure at all. In addition, most of the diseases turn out to be as deadly as anything else, which can erase the entire human race when not handled with care.
Pandemic diseases are the diseases that spread wide over an entire geographical area and killing thousands of innocent people on the go. There are some most deadly diseases that are listed below. Learning about them is really important since we should be aware of what has to be taken serious and also to understand that nature always has the upper hand and can destroy us in no time.

1. Salmonella as well as E.coli:

This disease is food borne. In fact, most of them enter our body system through the animals that we feed on. The current scenario holds that people who breed these animals tend to give them strong medicines irrespective of their health condition. This is the reason why our immune system seems to become less reactive to the antibiotics that we receive later on.

2. Yellow Fever Viruses:

Aedes mosquito is responsible for this sort of a disease. It will soon take effect and move quicker than you can imagine. This is nothing but the deadly malaria. Though it seems to have been held under control, caution should definitely be exercised.

3. SARS:

This virulent virus was one of the deadliest airborne diseases so far. In fact, the number of lives claimed by it is also huge. This disease is caused by corona viruses. This infection hit the world in the year 2003.

4. Ebola Liver Infection:

This is nothing but the hemorrhagic fever that is deadly and also a quick destroyer. This causes the patient to excessively bleed internally and then finally approach death. This causes the capillary walls to cut and start bleeding. Hence, it is really very dangerous.

5. MRSA:

This is a mutant variant that causes something similar to the staph infection that is so commonly seen in hospitals and nursing homes. It cannot be treated with any kind of antibiotic. Hence, it can turn out to be a vicious killer. It is a common disease in places where close contact exists. Some of the most commonly infected areas are schools, offices, shopping malls, etc.

Throughout the history of human kind many flu epidemics were emerging, taking lives of millions people worldwide. The latest threat to the human population is influenza virus type H1N1 strain, also known as the swine flu. The first record of the swine flu dates back to 1918, during the pandemic, the scientists quickly linked the disease to pigs, when they noticed that pigs were ill at the same time as humans. Over the years, the virus was mutating, only to emerge in more complex and dangerous strain in Mexico, 2009.  Although the scientists have not developed a vaccine against this particular strain of flu, there are top 10 percussions that one may take in order to minimize the chances of getting ill.

1. Frequent hand washing with soap and water for at least 20 seconds

The research shows that cold as well as flu viruses are transmitted through touching the surface, hand or object that has bodily fluids of infected person. When washing hands with soap, the flu molecules get moistened and get rinsed away with water.

2. If water is not available, use alcohol based hand sanitizers, with 50% of alcohol ingredient or more

Active ingredients such as isopropanol, ethanol, or n-propanol   work as well as soap and water and are effective at 99.5% rate against most viral as well as bacterial infections.

3. If you feel that, you need to sneeze or cough, please do so in your hands or sleeve

Wash hands immediately. It is also recommended not to touch or rub your face before washing your hands, as the virus spreads from person to person by hand-to-hand contact.

4. Try to limit your exposure to large social gatherings

During the outbreak try to limit your exposure to large social, as people frequently travel and socialize among each other, one might not even know that he/she is contagious until some physical signs appear.

5. Stay at home

If you experience any sign of the flu or cold virus, try to stay at home and get well before reporting to your daily life. It may look like inconvenience, but most of the work places do encourage their employees to take days off work and get back on their feet without infecting the others.