What is Bornholm disease?

What is Bornholm disease?

• Bornholm disease: Contagious viral infection.
• Bornholm disease: An acute, febrile, infectious disease generally occurring in epidemics. It is usually caused by coxsackieviruses B and sometimes by coxsackieviruses A; echoviruses; or other enteroviruses.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Bornholm disease: an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest).
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Bornholm disease: Introduction

Types of Bornholm disease:

Broader types of Bornholm disease:

• Diseases contagious from droplets
• more types...»

How serious is Bornholm disease?

Complications of Bornholm disease: see complications of Bornholm disease

What causes Bornholm disease?

Causes of Bornholm disease: see causes of Bornholm disease
Risk factors for Bornholm disease: see risk factors for Bornholm disease

What are the symptoms of Bornholm disease?

Symptoms of Bornholm disease: see symptoms of Bornholm disease

Complications of Bornholm disease: see complications of Bornholm disease

Duration of Bornholm disease: about a week (if no complications)

Can anyone else get Bornholm disease?

Contagion of Bornholm disease: Spread by coughing and sneezing
More information: see contagiousness of Bornholm disease

Bornholm disease: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Bornholm disease.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Bornholm disease.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Bornholm disease: see treatments for Bornholm disease
Research for Bornholm disease: see research for Bornholm disease

Name and Aliases of Bornholm disease

Main name of condition: Bornholm disease

pleurodynia

Epidemic myalgia, Epidemic pleurodynia Source - Diseases Database

Epidemic pleurodynia, Epidemic myalgia, Myosis, Diaphragmatic pleurisy, Bornholm disease, Pleuralgia, Costalgia
Source - WordNet 2.1

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Bornholm disease:

• Enterovirus
• Echovirus
• Coxsackie A virus
• Coxsackie B virus
• Headache
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents

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