Here are a few human non-infectious diseases that I could find that are influenced by microorganisms are different kinds of cancers, diabetes mellitus, Alzheimers, and cardiovascular diseases. For some reason, this was more challenging for me than I thought it was going to be. It’s easy to name non-infectious diseases, but then I had to really sit and think “well which of these diseases are influenced by microorganism” or “what even counts as a microorganism”? Thinking of microorganisms that cause infectious diseases is slightly easier in my opinion because I think that correlation just makes more sense in my head. I’m also curious to see how this relationship works in terms of non-chronic and chronic diseases. In my other class we’ve started talking about blood and its components. I’m curious to know more about how these microorganisms may affect the blood cells specifically in certain diseases.
