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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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Of those, rodents and particular passerine birds serve as reservoirs for the agent of Lyme disease (1-8). Here's the first comprehensive book on the herbal treatment and healing of lyme disease, which affects 200,000 new sufferers each year producing symptoms from mild lethargy to incapacitation. Tests in mice indicate that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease can commandeer a gene in its interim host--the deer tick--enabling the bacterium to escape immune detection once inside a mammal. |
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