Sometimes an infectious disease, like a viral disease, must be treated differently than the other illnesses we mentioned above. In some cases, an infectious disease specialist is the best kind of doctor to treat a patient with a particular infectious/viral disease like HIV or tuberculosis. This specialist understands these illnesses very well and may be the most qualified type of professional to treat you or your child. If you believe you or your child may have an infection like a viral infection, we ask that you consider that the infection could be very contagious, so there's a risk of infecting your loved ones or other people like our other patients and our staff here at Wendell Family Medicine. Please, instead of coming in to visit us, contact us at our clinic for care. We'll very likely be able to treat you/your child. If, for whatever reason, we can't provide the level of care that's necessary and we determine you should see an infectious disease specialist, we'll refer you to one.