• The vaccine is safe, effective and the only protection against a potentially fatal disease.

    BBC: Swansea measles epidemic: Cases increase to 808

  • Guinea worm is a non-fatal disease transmitted by water fleas living in stagnant water.

    CNN: How fight against Guinea worm was won

  • In a statement, the Kent NHS trust said some hospital staff members were being vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease.

    BBC: UK Rabies warning poster in 1982

  • When someone is diagnosed with a fatal disease, they must be told.

    FORBES: The Final Transition: End of Life Care

  • Arya had spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a progressive and fatal disease in which the nerves that control the muscles slowly waste away.

    FORBES: For Arya

  • The fatal disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.

    CNN: Mad cow case confirmed in California

  • Public Health Wales (PHW) continues to warn that the outbreak may spread with those not vaccinated "highly likely" to contract the potentially fatal disease.

    BBC: A teenage girl prepares to have the MMR jab

  • First, ovarian cancer is often a fatal disease, often rapidly so.

    FORBES: Why No Uproar Over Ovarian Cancer Screening Guidelines?

  • In real life, it would likely result in a fatal disease.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Poizner tells us, for example that he accelerated his way through high school to appease his mother, who told him she was dying from a fatal disease.

    FORBES: Poizner's Poser Prose

  • Despite this, PHW said large numbers of people aged 10-18 years still have not had a jab which could prevent them from contracting measles, a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease.

    BBC: Measles epidemic: 'Slowing but more still need MMR jab'

  • In 2003, Dr. Francis Collins and his team of researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health discovered the gene that causes this fatal disease.

    CNN: Advances in kids' early aging disease

  • As for his record on AIDS, activists attack him for moving too slowly to marshal city resources against the almost-always fatal disease largely affecting gay men that began to take hold in the early 1980s.

    WSJ: Ed Koch Legacy: New York City's Fortunes Improved Under His Leadership

  • No guffawing here: Curious what Lohan, who was jailed for two years for getting into a serious accident while under the influence, will contribute to treating this fatal disease which has obviously impacted his family.

    FORBES: Lohan Family Business Is Rehab

  • Komen, education is at the forefront of what we do and has been a main reason we are witnessing the trend of breast cancer evolving from a fatal disease to one requiring chronic management or better yet, to being cured.

    WHITEHOUSE: Less Talk, More Action to End Breast Cancer Forever

  • "Contracting a fatal disease, " McCain answered.

    NPR: McCain Nearly Broke, but Stays Course

  • That argument doesn't mean spit to the New York regulators, who are concerned about the reliability of the online tests and their potential to send people rushing to their doctor demanding a cure for a fatal disease they may never get.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Only a handful of people know this about me, but five years ago, my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. This is a fatal disease that literally eats away at a person's muscles until they cannot walk, talk or even breathe.

    NPR: Inner Strength from Desperate Times

  • This medicine is an impressive collection of firsts: not only is it the first drug approved to treat lupus, a potentially fatal disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, it is also one of the first drugs to come out of genomics, the systematic evaluation of human genetics that was epitomized by the human genome project a decade ago.

    FORBES: Human Genome Sciences' Benlysta Approved To Treat Lupus

  • The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The visitors contracted hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, a rare but often fatal lung disease.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The fatal brain disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • There have been other cases, too, of patents taking Tysabri coming down with the rare and usually fatal brain disease called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).

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  • Only six per 100, 000 people are expected to develop the condition compared to 204, 44, and 95 per 100, 000 for fatal heart disease, colorectal cancer and Alzheimer's respectively.

    BBC: Regular painkiller use linked to cancer

  • Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    CNN: Mad cow case confirmed in California

  • They said that during the study period, adding an extra portion of unprocessed red meat to someone's daily diet would increase the risk of death by 13%, of fatal cardiovascular disease by 18% and of cancer mortality by 10%.

    BBC: Red meat increases death, cancer and heart risk, says study

  • Lupus is a serious, potentially fatal, autoimmune disease that attacks healthy tissues.

    FORBES: Human Genome Sciences' Benlysta Approved To Treat Lupus

  • The WHO expressed concern about what it called "exposure worldwide" to mad cow disease and its fatal human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).

    CNN: New BSE case in Germany

  • After the meeting, Hueston was headed for England, where he serves on the British committee of scientists that found there may be a link between that country's bovine disease and a rare but fatal human equivalent called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, or CJD.

    CNN: USDA: American burgers still safe

  • But Jobs suffered from a rarer and less fatal form of the disease, called islet cell pancreatic cancer.

    FORBES: Is Steve Jobs Ill?

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