It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

He first recognised and described Alper's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( the latter with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ).

He realizes after the first few cases that the disease is bubonic plague and is aware of the seriousness of the situation.

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there ( 2. 5 million gassed, and 500, 000 from disease and starvation ).

* 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.

Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of " presenile dementia ", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.

In September 2007, the UK reported its first ever suspected case of the disease, in a Highland cow on a rare breeds farm near Ipswich, Suffolk.

Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

Swedish and Danish chronicles of the 16th century described the events as " black " for the first time, not to describe the late-stage sign of the disease, in which the sufferer's skin would blacken due to subepidermal hemorrhages and the extremities would darken with a form of gangrene, acral necrosis, but more likely to refer to black in the sense of glum or dreadful and to denote the terror and gloom of the events.

It is mainly a disease in the fleas ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) that infested the rats, making the rats themselves the first victims of the plague.

Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated in Voini I Narodo-Nacelenie Europi ( 1960 ) that in the first and second Balkan wars there were 122, 000 killed in action, 20, 000 dead of wounds, and 82, 000 dead of disease.

He told her that he acquired this disease after separating from his first wife and living with his concubine Yao Yecheng, as well as with many other women he consorted with.

Studies suggest antiparasitic treatment leads to parasitological cure in about 60 – 85 % of adults and more than 90 % of infants treated in the first year of acute phase Chagas disease.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

Obtaining a medical history is always the first " test ", part of understanding the likelihood of significant disease, as detectable within the current limitations of clinical medicine.

Cholera became the first reportable disease in the United States due to the significant effects it had on health.

In 2010, CMT was one of the first diseases where the genetic cause of a particular patient's disease was precisely determined by sequencing the whole genome of an affected individual.

One might expect some spread of the disease in this case resulting in increased effectiveness of the attack.

A significant contribution to the northward spread of Bluetongue disease has been the ability of Culicoides obsoletus and C. pulicaris to acquire and transmit the disease, both of which are spread widely throughout Europe.

Midges will then spread the disease from the calves to other animals, starting a new season of infection.

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

A well known case of mortuary cannibalism is that of the Fore tribe in New Guinea which resulted in the spread of the prion disease kuru.

The disease may also be spread through blood transfusion and organ transplantation, ingestion of food contaminated with parasites, and from a mother to her fetus.

The insects that spread the disease are known by various local names, including vinchuca in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay, barbeiro ( the barber ) in Brazil, pito in Colombia, chinche in Central America, chipo in Venezuela, chupança, chinchorro, and " the kissing bug ".

Chagas disease can also be spread congenitally ( from a pregnant woman to her baby ) through the placenta, and accounts for approximately 13 % of stillborn deaths in parts of Brazil.

The editorial stance was that the Boston populace feared that inoculation spread, rather than prevented, the disease ; however, some historians, notably H. W. Brands, have argued that this position was a result of editor-in-chief James Franklin's ( Benjamin Franklin's brother ) contrarian positions.

Lack of treatment of human feces and lack of treatment of drinking water greatly facilitate its spread, but bodies of water can serve as a reservoir, and seafood shipped long distances can spread the disease.

The latency period is the time between infection and the ability of the disease to spread to another person, which may precede, follow, or be simultaneous with the appearance of symptoms.

A disseminated disease has spread to other parts ; with cancer, this is usually called metastatic disease.

The villagers imposed a quarantine on themselves to stop the further spread of the disease.

This information is important when looking at breeding patterns or tracking the spread of disease, parasites or how changes to the movement can affect other species.

The spread of disease is a major secondary disaster.

Unlike hydroponically grown plants, aeroponically grown plants will not suffer transplant shock when transplanted to soil, and offers growers the ability to reduce the spread of disease and pathogens.

* Primary pathogens cause disease as a result of their presence or activity within the normal, healthy host, and their intrinsic virulence ( the severity of the disease they cause ) is, in part, a necessary consequence of their need to reproduce and spread.

Washing one's hands, a form of hygiene, is the most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

The electric gadget is most helpful when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.

He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

It is the exploitation of the inherent potential of infectious disease agents by scientific research and development, resulting in the production of BW weapons systems.

Mr. A., her fellow townsman, also experienced a nervous breakdown just as soon as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife -- a woman suffering from an incurable disease, multiple sclerosis -- and himself.

In such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease, early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's cure-all gadget can prove fatal.

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

He did not have a separate cult, but he was the personification of the holy magic-song sung by the magicians that was supposed to cure disease.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.

The pain from arthritis is due to inflammation that occurs around the joint, damage to the joint from disease, daily wear and tear of joint, muscle strains caused by forceful movements against stiff painful joints and fatigue.

An autoantigen is usually a normal protein or complex of proteins ( and sometimes DNA or RNA ) that is recognized by the immune system of patients suffering from a specific autoimmune disease.

In 2001, an article by four doctors in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology, noted that although to date there had been no controlled studies performed in patients with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease with refractory pain, their personal observation in isolated cases indicated that the Alexander Technique helped relieve patients ' pain, particularly when accompanied with whirlpool treatments and massage therapy.

His disease was one which had affected him from an early age, caused by the continual use of carving-tools, producing a depression of the ribs.

By 1911, his description of the disease was being used by European physicians to diagnose patients in the US.

A discussion of every disease caused by modification of the various apoptotic pathways would be impractical, but the concept overlying each one is the same: the normal functioning of the pathway has been disrupted in such a way as to impair the ability of the cell to undergo normal apoptosis.

The most common of these diseases is cancer, the disease of excessive cellular proliferation, which is often characterized by an overexpression of IAP family members.

The main method of treatment for death signaling-related diseases involves either increasing or decreasing the susceptibility of apoptosis in diseased cells, depending on whether the disease is caused by either the inhibition of or excess apoptosis.

OROV is a disease that is transmitted between humans by the biting midge ( Culicoides paraensis ).