Disease | Cause | Signs & Symptoms | Treatment | Tetanus | From bacteria from the Rusted items | Spasms. Stiffness in your muscles and difficulty swallowing | Antibiotics, including penicillin, clindamycin, erythromycin, or metronidazole (metronidazole has been most successful) | Tuberculosis | Coughs, sneezes, or talks, tiny droplets of saliva or mucus are put into the air, which are inhaled most the time. | Fever, chills, night sweats, loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue | Isoniazids, rifampin, ethambutol, rifapentine, taking this usually 6 to 9 months | Diphtheria | A bacterial infection in the upper respiratory tract. Typically it is characterized by sore throat, swollen neck glands, high temperature and breathing difficulties. | chills, sore throat, , cough, headache, difficulty swallowing, painful swallowing, difficulty breathing, rapid breathing | CDC recommendsMetronidazoleErythromycinProcaine penicillin G | West Nile disease | When mosquito populations are active. The incubation period — the period between when you're bitten by an infected mosquito and the appearance of signs and symptoms of the illness — ranges from three to 14 days. | Headache, fever, meningitis, encephalitis, menigoencephalitis { inflammation of both the brain (encephalitis) and meninges (meningitis)} | No specific treatment is available. hospitalization, intravenous fluids, respiratory support, and prevention of secondary infections | Lyme | spirochete bacteria from the tick that is feeding off of you | most often occur from May through September, three to thirty days after the tick bite you’ll start to gain a red rash that may look like a bulls eye | Antibiotic but depends upon the stage of the disease, doxycycline ( adults), amoxicillin ( children), erythromycin (for pregnant women only) and ceftriaxone, with