In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

In some instances a different clinical disease picture may result from this route of exposure, making diagnosis difficult.

The causes of retardation and maladjustment may be found in physical factors, such as defective speech or hearing, impaired vision, faulty motor coordination, a frail constitution, chronic disease, malnutrition, and glandular malfunctioning.

It is thought that he may have suffered from Crohn's disease.

It is for this reason that extreme caution should be taken with those who may be at risk of heart disease.

The pain and symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, GERD or simply " reflux ", may mimic those of a heart attack.

* There is evidence that exposure may cause demyelinating disease in laboratory animals.

Genital modification and mutilation may involve amputating tissue, although not necessarily as a result of injury or disease.

Their numbers have dwindled to about 2, 000 as a consequence of disease and disruption of traditional lifestyles, though people with partial Aleut descent may number around 15, 000.

AVMs may occur in isolation or as a part of another disease ( for example, Von Hippel-Lindau disease or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia ).

The location of the primary lesion may be suggested by the location of the abscess: infections of the middle ear result in lesions in the middle and posterior cranial fossae ; congenital heart disease with right-to-left shunts often result in abscesses in the distribution of the middle cerebral artery ; and infection of the frontal and ethmoid sinuses usually results in collection in the subdural sinuses.

Fungi and parasites may also cause the disease.

Red deer are an exception, and in them the disease may be as acute as in sheep.

Osteoporosis is most common in women after the menopause, when it is called postmenopausal osteoporosis, but may develop in men and premenopausal women in the presence of particular hormonal disorders and other chronic diseases or as a result of smoking and medications, specifically glucocorticoids, when the disease is called steroid-or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis ( SIOP or GIOP ).

Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.

The traditional approach toward protecting agriculture, food, and water: focusing on the natural or unintentional introduction of a disease is being strengthened by focused efforts to address current and anticipated future biological weapons threats that may be deliberate, multiple, and repetitive.

In the second type, a researcher may conduct the gene test by comparing the sequence of DNA bases in a patient's gene to disease in healthy individuals or their progeny.

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.

Over the course of the disease, the thyroid glands greatly enlarge ( up to 10 x 20 cm ) and may become polycystic.

Bipolar disorder may be a polygenic disease.

Although there are no biological tests which confirm bipolar disorder, tests may be carried out to exclude medical illnesses such as hypo-or hyperthyroidism, metabolic disturbance, a systemic infection or chronic disease, and syphilis or HIV infection.

Scholars speculate that the total Araucanian population may have numbered 1 million at most when the Spaniards arrived in the 1530s ; a century of European conquest and disease reduced that number by at least half.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` Hang this around your neck or attach it to other parts of your anatomy, and its rays will cure any disease you have '', said the company.

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.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

In a living organism this can have disastrous effects, often in the form of disease or disorder.

It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness, and in psychiatry several other terms are used, specifically " alcohol abuse " and " alcohol dependence ," which have slightly different definitions.

: We have never called alcoholism a disease because, technically speaking, it is not a disease entity.

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.

Styblo and Meijer argued neonatal immunization protected against miliary TB and other noncontagious forms of TB, and not pulmonary TB which was a disease of adults, and that mass immunization campaigns with BCG would therefore not be expected to have a significant public health impact.

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

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 arenaviruses have a somewhat reduced case-fatality rate compared to disease caused by filoviruses, but are more widely distributed, chiefly in central Africa and South America.

Financial cutbacks have limited the tracking of disease outbreaks.

So, when a woman considers her breasts deficient in some respect, she might choose to undergo a plastic surgery procedure to enhance them, either to have them augmented or to have them reduced, or to have them reconstructed if she suffered a deformative disease, such as breast cancer.

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

For the remainder of 1748 and 1749 Gluck travelled with Mingotti's troupe, contracting a venereal disease from the prima donna and composing the opera La contesa de ' numi for the court at Copenhagen.

In 1944, when he travelled to Washington and London for meetings with Roosevelt, Churchill and other Allied leaders, he already had heart disease, and in early 1945 his health deteriorated still more obviously.

Many Hurons considered them to be malevolent shamans who brought death and disease wherever they travelled.

In 1846, Parkman travelled west on a hunting expedition, where he spent a number of weeks living with the Sioux tribe, at a time when they were struggling with some of the effects of contact with Europeans, such as epidemic disease and alcoholism.

It was said that the route of the Kinshasa Highway had to be carved out from thick jungle, and after it was paved, AIDS spread quickly, as carriers of the disease travelled along its length on board cars and trucks, from populated areas to more isolated rural areas.

Attired in an army nurse's uniform and military-style hat, she travelled yearly to strife-torn and poverty-stricken parts of the world searching out towns and villages in need of Canadian assistance to recover from drought, war, disease and poverty.

The government in turn backed the Niger expedition of 1841 ( not including Buxton ) put together by missionary organisations: it travelled to the Niger River Delta in 1841 and began negotiations, but suffered many deaths from disease, and cut short its mission.

Afflicted by a disease of the lungs, Lipschütz travelled to Hamburg for treatment, where he died after an operation.