Question

enlist various factors that determine the severity of disease manifestation.

Answer 1

Factors on which severity of disease manifestation depends are

• Infection level, if infection is low than disease manifestation will also be less
• Health status
• Inflammatory responses
• Level of the damage of the organ infected

The number of disease causing microbes in the body decide the severity of disease manifestation. If the number of microbes is very small, the disease manifestation may be minor and even go unnoticed. But if the microbes is large ,the disease can be severe .Infact if the microbe number is very large,the disease can even be fatal.Our immune system is a major factor that determines the number of microbes surviving in the body.