1. diseases
Vaccinations help prevent childhood diseases.
Parents can pass many diseases on to their offspring.
Louis Pasteur discovered that germs cause most infectious diseases.
Many people believe acupuncture can cure diseases.
Many diseases result from poverty.
It's possible, though rare, for humans to catch diseases from animals.
Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.
Not all the infectious diseases are contagious.
Cancer is not one but more than a hundred distinct diseases.
Like most diseases, it has its own symptoms.
Infectious diseases are caused by prions, viruses, rickettsia, chlamydia, bacteria, pathogenic fungi and protozoa.
Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
There are many zoonoses, that is, diseases transmitted from animals to human beings.
Man, being of flesh, is subject to diseases of the mind and after death, to worms.
About a third of these diseases can be cured, but the others may be serious, or even fatal.