A infection is something that is transmitted through a wound or direct contact such as saliva (Which is how you get Rabies). A disease is a illness or germ that usually infects people through the air or indirect contact. The difference is that diseases are also usually contracted from non-living organisms or by simply developing it naturally (Such as cancer). Rabies also kills faster than a Disease does, it takes around 14 days to spread through your entire body and cause death. Normally most diseases will eat away at a persons body or immune system for a lengthy period of time before someone will succumb to the effects.Denamic said:
Most diseases also cannot be cured because they infect certain parts of the body (Such as the liver or intestines) and adapt to become resistant to medicine. However a infection like Rabies does not affect a specific part of the body while adapting, it simply moves through the body infecting everything until it reaches the brain, then it moves and spreads into the rest of the body INFECTING everything. A disease will however have specific characteristics that can normally be tracked and treated to a certain degree, but Rabies cannot be treated at all once it has reached the brain. Not to mention the fact that Rabies travels through the bloodstream to infect the body, while a disease can have any number of ways to grow and spread.
The main difference overall is that Rabies infects and changes the way the cells in the body act, but a disease will normally grow and destroy the cells in a body. The term 'Infectious Viral Disease' is correct, however by claiming that referring to it as a 'Infection' is incorrect and then insulting me, you are wrong. While rabies is CLASSIFIED as a disease, it is spread as a infection and that is also what it literally is (You cannot contract rabies from the air or by touching a piece of wood that a infected animal chewed a week prior, thus it is referred to as a infection for needing direct viral contact with your blood or body such as saliva). I am not saying you are wrong in the way you phrased it, but the fact that you ignorantly shoved aside other opinions or statements is a reason that I need to explain my own side.
Also a side note is that a Disease cannot normally be treated through medicine in a short period of time once it has been contracted, but Rabies as an infection can be immediately treated if it hasn't reached the brain or any critical organs in the body. And my whole point to begin with when I first replied to your statement, was how you were talking about rodents getting diseases from humans, but I was just stating that because it is a infection and that rodents most commonly have it, that they are the ones who actually spread it to humans and animals and not the other way around.
