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What do you mean by disease symptoms? Explain giving two examples?

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Symptoms are the evidences that point to the presence of a diseases they are visible in the form of either structural or functional changes in our body or any of its parts. On the basis of these symptoms doctors search for definite clues or sings for a particular diseases.
e.g., The symptoms for malaria and typhoid are same like fever, weakness, headache etc. but signs for the disease are different as malaria fever manifests through chills and that of typhoid fever are rashes, stomach pain etc.
A simple blood test (CBC)is enough to detect malarial infection and for typhoid widal test is conducted.
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