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disease noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet there remains a pressing need to more clearly define the causal relationships, leading from a distal environmental change to alterations in more proximal environmental characteristics and disease transmission cycles, which eventually lead to a shift in the prevalence, distribution, or severity of an infectious disease (Figure 1). KEY WORDS: dermo disease, SPF oyster, Patuxent River, disease transmission A new study shows that prions become more infectious when they latch on to soil particles that animals eat, suggesting that ingestion is a primary route of disease transmission. |
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