In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

The epithet " Smintheus " has historically been confused with σμίνθος, " mouse ", in association with Apollo's role as a god of disease.

This disease has been occasionally associated with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, septicemia associated with immune complex deposition, methanol poisoning, and other underlying conditions.

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.

This foundation includes the Clinton Foundation HIV and AIDS Initiative ( CHAI ), which strives to combat that disease, and has worked with the Australian government toward that end.

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.

However, the disease found in northern Europe ( including the UK ) in 2006 and 2007 has been caused by serotype 8.

Since the late 1980s, evidence has become available that instillation of BCG into the bladder is an effective form of immunotherapy in this disease.

The disease has a history of use in biological warfare dating back many centuries, and is considered a threat due to its ease of culture and ability to remain in circulation among local rodents for a long period of time.

Ebola virus disease has fatality rates ranging from 50-90 %.

Infection in a human occurs when a person is bitten by a flea that has been infected by biting a rodent that itself has been infected by the bite of a flea carrying the disease.

The higher-level association of β sheets has been implicated in formation of the protein aggregates and fibrils observed in many human diseases, notably the amyloidoses such as Alzheimer's disease.

For more than a decade, Yale University neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis has been challenging this explanation for the disease.

Cannibalism has also been implicated as a transmission mechanism for abnormal prions, causing the disease known as kuru, once found primarily among women and children of the Fore people in Papua New Guinea.

In the U. S., the FDA has banned import of any donor sperm, motivated by a risk of Creutzfeldt – Jakob disease, inhibiting the once popular import of, for example, Scandinavian sperm.

It derives from a need to treat people whose brain function has been impaired as a result of disease, brain damage, toxins, or drugs.

For example, the foot-and-mouth disease virus capsid has faces consisting of three proteins named VP1 – 3.

Chagas disease is contracted primarily in the Americas, particularly in poor, rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America ; very rarely, the disease has been found in the Southern United States.

Gross anatomy of a heart that has been damaged by chronic Chagas disease-see also:: Image: Heart radiology Chagas disease. JPG | Chagas heart, radiology

Blood transfusion was formerly the second-most common mode of transmission for Chagas disease, but the development and implementation of blood bank screening tests has dramatically reduced this risk in the last decade.

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 the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

The god who sends a disease can also prevent from it, therefore when it stops they make a purifying ceremony and offer him an " hecatomb " to ward off evil.

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.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis ( AHL, or AHLE ), also known as acute necrotizing encephalopathy ( ANE ), acute hemorrhagic encephalomyelitis ( AHEM ), acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis ( ANHLE ), Weston-Hurst syndrome, or Hurst's disease, is a hyperacute and frequently fatal form of ADEM.

Ataxia is also the name of a disease in the Elder Scrolls console and PC games.

He also took Bennelong and his friend Yemmerrawanyea, another young Indigenous Australian who, unlike Bennelong, would succumb to English weather and disease and not live to make the journey home.

Another study found it also effective for healing limb ulcers caused by peripheral vascular disease.

Fungi and parasites may also cause the disease.

For example, many people with cancer not only inherit the disease gene for the disorder, but may have also failed to inherit specific tumor suppressor genes.

Diet, exercise, smoking and other environmental factors may have also contributed to their disease.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

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.

But these new arrivals followed the indigenous Cubans by also dispersing into the wilderness or suffering a similar fate at the hands of disease.

Coronary artery disease ( CAD ; also atherosclerotic heart disease ) is the result of the accumulation of

Chagas disease (;,,,, mal de Chagas in both languages ; also called American trypanosomiasis ) is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.

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 antiparasitic treatments also appear to delay or prevent the development of disease symptoms during the chronic phase of the disease, but 20 – 40 % of chronically infected individuals will still eventually develop life-threatening heart and digestive system disorders.

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

`` Anybody with a contagious disease been in there ''??

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 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.

Antioxidants are widely used in dietary supplements and have been investigated for the prevention of diseases such as cancer, coronary heart disease and even altitude sickness.

Norway have since been declared free of the disease in 2011.

* Nebuchadnezzar's " affliction " was of the mind whereas Nabonidus ' seems to have been a skin disease.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.