To the middle of September 1918, there had been fewer than 10,000 deaths from disease in the new army.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

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.

About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.

McCluskey died at the age of 75, not as a result of exposure, but of a heart disease which he had before the accident.

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.

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 ).

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.

In 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken.

Unconnected with inter-human wars, humans have deliberately introduced the rabbit disease Myxomatosis, originating in South America, to Australia and Europe, with the intention of reducing the rabbit population – which had devastating but temporary results, with wild rabbit populations reduced to a fraction of their former size but survivors developing immunity and increasing again.

The use of disease as a weapon in this stage of history exhibited a lack of control aggressors had over their own biological weapons.

By the early 19th century, the threat of plague had diminished, but it was quickly replaced by a new disease.

In 1898, the French scientist Paul-Louis Simond ( who had also come to China to battle the Third Pandemic ) established the rat-flea vector that drives the disease.

He had noted that persons who became ill did not have to be in close contact with each other to acquire the disease.

Although the Fore's mortuary cannibalism was well documented, the practice had ceased before the cause of the disease was recognized.

His doctor explained to her that Chiang had sex with her before completing his treatment for the disease.

For example, by inoculating in the months of milder climate, one had a better chance of fighting the infection and becoming immune instead of the alternative: natural exposure to the disease during harsher weather, when the body's defenses were already challenged.

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

By the time DDT was introduced in the U. S., the disease had already been brought under control by a variety of other means.

Indeed, by the age of eighteen nearly all of his closest relatives had died by war or disease.

He has offered apparently contradictory reasons for their removal: in one instance claiming that seizure medication he was taking caused periodontal disease, and in yet another claiming other kinds of dental problems which had troubled him for years.

Marat, a member of the National Assembly and a journalist, had a skin disease that caused him to itch horribly.

On 14 February 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.

This " belle époque " lasted until the First World War, when the consequences of hostilities, notably in Germany whence at least 40 cultivars originated, and the outbreak of Dutch elm disease saw the elm slide into horticultural decline.

It was also believed that all human disease and suffering originated with the killing of animals for improper purposes, and that for each animal killed for pleasure or without proper ceremonies, it allowed a new disease to enter the physical world from the spirit world.

In the 17th century, an infectious disease similar to English sweat originated from the region and spread across France.

The disease, which is believed to have originated in South East Asia, is extremely persistent when it becomes established in an area, making it necessary for all citrus orchards to be destroyed for successful eradication of the disease.

One hypothesis is that the virus strain originated at Fort Riley, Kansas, in viruses in poultry and swine which the fort bred for food ; the soldiers were then sent from Fort Riley around the world, where they spread the disease.

Initially, it did not provide information for Chinese provinces other than Guangdong, the province where the disease is believed to have originated.

The outbreak originated from a researcher working on the SARS virus in a lab at the Institute of Virology in Beijing, who inadvertently caught the disease and ended up spreading it to the nurse taking care of him.

" The book advances the idea that Lyme disease originated at Plum Island and conjectures several means by which animal diseases could have left the island.

Though citrus originated in southeast Asia, current citrus production is low due to lower than average yields, high production and marketing costs and problems with disease.

The disease is believed to have originated in Asia, later spreading through the transport of cattle.

In 1969, an outbreak of the disease originated in Afghanistan, travelling westwards and promoting a mass vaccination plan, which, by 1972, had eliminated rinderpest in all areas of Asia except for Lebanon and India ; both countries were the site of further occurrences of the disease in the 1980s.

P. ramorum is a relatively new disease, and there have been several debates about where it may have originated or how it evolved.

It was initially given the binomial designation Dermocystidium marinum from which the disease name Dermo originated.

Devil facial tumour disease ( DFTD ) is an aggressive non-viral transmissible parasitic cancer — which likely originated in Schwann cells — that affects Tasmanian devils.

In a paper published in the January 2010 issue of Science, an international team of researchers announced that devil facial tumour disease likely originated in Schwann cells, a type of cell found in the peripheral nervous system that is essential for the functions of nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system.

The disease, which is believed to have originated in South East Asia, is extremely persistent when it becomes established in an area.

Due to the similarities in deduced CP2 amino acids sequence and the chronology of the disease outbreaks in relation to imported stocks, it is likely at least some of the Thai isolates originated from Chinese stocks.