| 单词 | disease |
| 例句 | What is ‘diplopia’? A. Double vision B. Left-handedness C. A disease of the gums D. A form of cancer.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z As they sat in Farmer’s office, she said she understood the clinic’s message about germs and disease but still couldn’t escape the conclusion that sorcery had played a hand in her dead son’s fate. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She was a sight to behold there on the floor, scrubbing away, with her flyaway hair sticking out and dark bruise-colored circles under her eyes from all her worrying about us catching the kamikaze disease. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t say. But there’s no use in trying to pin disease names on this. Human disorders apply to robots only as romantic analogies. They’re no help to robotic engineering.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z As a child, Roosevelt suffered from acute asthma, a respiratory disease that caused his airways to constrict, making it difficult for him to breathe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They prefer to take it for granted that we only die because we get sick, with one lethal ailment or another, and if we did not have our diseases we might go on indefinitely. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When there were 36,000 patient visits a year in the STD clinics of Baltimore’s inner city, in other words, the disease was kept in equilibrium. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My disease is as rare as it is famous. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z No. My steady was the World War II vet, dead of heart disease. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I looked for signs of the disease’s progression. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite extreme precautions, disease cut down native Siberians again and again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he told me about spirits in Lacks Town that sometimes visited people’s houses and caused disease. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Neither European nor Indian had a secular understanding of disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was as cynical as I was regarding uplift and hope, and we were proud of having escaped what we called the “childhood disease of metaphysical fear.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But they did not run away fast enough; their ships spread the disease to every port they visited. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Space hurls outward, falconswift, mounting like an irreversible injustice, a final disease. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The one gnarl of her childhood was the knowledge that, if she did not die of one of her diseases, she would eventually have to marry and go live with in-laws. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Most sickness and disease today is the result of faulty diet and wrong eating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her son has on one of those surgical masks that Chinese people wear so they don’t catch diseases on trains and stuff. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Some reports say she was born frail and unable to fend off disease. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a very bad disease that makes you crippled,” she said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Diabetes mellitus—commonly referred to as diabetes—is a costly, silent killer. This complex but common disease occurs when a cat’s body either doesn’t produce or doesn’t properly use insulin.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He thought of infections, the many diseases Kathy had mentioned when trying to get him to leave the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach almost turning inside out from hunger, his body infested with lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease, and sorrow. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Now the disease has gone to his nervous system. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The second attack wasn’t as bad as the first, so it seemed he was fighting off the disease. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s supposed to make me love them? Their precious ‘Western civilization is a disease, Percy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Everyone lived in fear, inspecting themselves for the first signs of the dread disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The assignments, quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that killed others in the past. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We’re similarly liable to pick up diseases from wild animals, such as the tularemia that hunters can get from skinning wild rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A cult with a disease that drove them even crazier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The inoculations of those who have not yet suffered the disease shall commence shortly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Now there’s a huge building in its place, what they call a shopping complex, as if shopping were a psychic disease. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt superstitious about even thinking about diseases that would surely kill her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Two of the most publicized demolitions — Lexington Terrace in West Baltimore and Lafayette Courts in East Baltimore — were huge projects, housing hundreds of families, that served as centers for crime and infectious disease. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus a kidney-shaped bean might be good for treating a disease of the kidneys. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When radium was first discovered in the late 1800s, headlines nationwide hailed it as “a substitute for gas, electricity, and a positive cure for every disease.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It said: Threatening to life; virulent: a malignant disease. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, the chinchillas came down with a disease peculiar to rats, and they were all dead within two weeks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked, “What will I do if Usman catches this disease?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the differential mortality from epidemic diseases in traditional European societies had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved genetic resistance dependent on details of body chemistry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He tore at his blindfold as if it were a contagious body whose disease he might catch. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They frantically tried to create an epidemiological “firebreak” by vaccinating ahead of the disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those plants, growing in complex, living soils, produced polyphenols to protect themselves from pests and disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And the state has rules about children and extended illnesses and contagious diseases, and it doesn't matter what kind of a school the kid attends. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The cause was heart disease, but the talk in Jableh was that it was simple heartache. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Technically, the disease is diagnosed, not the patient. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The article talked about the long-term complications that could result from diabetes: kidney disease, infections, and liver issues. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have wondered, since leaving Penikese, whether there might be people like you who are curious not about the disease itself but rather about the people I treated. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z That, as we will soon learn, is the ultimate disease of malfunctioning genes—cancer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The lab in Kinshasa ruined his first blood sample and asked us to send another, so the results on what diseases Otto might have weren’t in yet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “What you mean, she got something? Like a disease?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Normally, it's not an ideal way to grow crops, because it spreads disease: Human waste has pathogens in it that, you guessed it, infect humans. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody else at the hospital developed a proven case of Marburg/*^^1 virus disease. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That nasty epidemic disease affects cattle and many wild cud-chewing mammals, but not humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disease which was rotting his body had eaten away nail and flesh to the first knuckle. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They need water and soap to wash with every now and then, or else they have to struggle with parasites and diseases. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When disease swept Indians from the land, this entire ecological ancien regime collapsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The doctor double-checked the list of diseases I had marked on the form earlier. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Even the blacks of the Free African Society—the only ones actually doing anything in an organized, citywide way—were coming down with the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Not only would domesticated animals have changed Indian societies, they might have created new zoonotic diseases. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Merciless disease, wild beasts, and Indian attacks were a constant threat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It avoided publishing most obituaries, never mentioned the rise in crime, and was vague about the spread of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Their mother had died during the disease time, and their father’s other wife—Pascal’s mother—had taken them both into her house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The spirit- ridden men writhed as though stricken with disease. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Over time mutation lets animal diseases jump to people: avian influenza becomes human influenza, bovine rinderpest becomes human measles, horsepox becomes human smallpox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “My sister doesn’t have a disease. She has a gift.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Malaria was the most feared and the most prevalent disease in the Amazon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They cause several different diseases in cultivated plants and have probably most recently evolved from more complex organisms rather than from simpler ones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After the first burst of energy, the moving in of the machines, the digging of tunnels and rooms—after that was done, a feeling of discontent settled upon us like some creeping disease. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Brother Leon studied him, looking at him as if he were a specimen under a microscope, as if the specimen contained the germ of some deadly disease. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her diseases are usually tropical and debilitating, but only occasionally deadly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once scientists knew how many chromosomes people were supposed to have, they could tell when a person had too many or too few, which made it possible to diagnose genetic diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “To reduce disease, they tell us. Only in the most advanced cities. We live in a new Rome, my friend. An enlightened age!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For certain diseases, like malaria or hookworm, new cases appear any month of any year in an affected area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hodge and Foulke thought they and their colleagues needed to see and discuss many more fever cases before putting a name to the disease, especially such a terrifying name. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The only factor that prevented horses from spreading beyond West Africa was trypanosome diseases borne by tsetse flies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the nineteenth century, the treatment of an intestinal disease focused on purging the system through vomiting and moving the bowels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "We can make of the historical record that there was depopulation and movement of people from internecine warfare and diseases," he said to me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For almost any disease, some people prove to be genetically more resistant than are others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Females can be carriers and transmit the gene, but only males are typically afflicted by the disease. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She told me later she laughed when the officers told her this news, she was so delirious with madness and disease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s enough to save a few lives around here, but no, it’s not all. I know a little about some diseases. Only a little.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Once evils are recognized ahead of time, they may be easily cured; but if you wait for them to come upon you, the medicine will be too late, because the disease will have become incurable. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I wonder if she’ll be more upset to lose me, or to lose to the disease. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Benjamin Rush was, after all, living proof that the disease could be beaten. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Some scientists think this imbalance might help explain the high levels of heart disease in our society. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In arguing that Indians died at anomalously high rates from European diseases, are researchers claiming that they were somehow uniquely vulnerable? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But what you probably don’t know is that little Jeffrey’s disease, leukemia, is tremendously expensive. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The disease exists anywhere there are monkey populations, as does the pesticide-resistant mosquito that can transport the disease to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Smallpox also ruined the British plan to raise an army of slaves and indentured servants by promising them freedom after the war—the disease killed off most of the “Ethiopian regiment” even as it assembled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were diseases of the skin, diseases of the bone, diseases of the lung, diseases of the stomach, diseases of the heart, blood and arteries. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Her pulse slowed, her eyes grew bloodshot, her skin took on the pale-yellow color that gave the disease its name. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One of the first things Governor Mifflin did when he returned in late October was to ask the College of Physicians to write a report concerning the cause of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Maize swept into Africa as introduced disease was leveling Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There are possibilities of using less toxic sprays or, better still, of introducing microorganisms that will cause disease among the budworms without affecting the whole web of forest life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first is the probability of not being afflicted with any of a variety of diseases, accidents, or other misfortunes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Patients were bled to relieve headaches, depression, disease, and anxiety. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He’d taken a leave from his job as a town fire inspector after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was a desert disease that took my parents’ strength. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The boys in the front row hope he has no diseases for it’s the spit that carries all the diseases and he might be spreading consumption right and left. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Military campaigns and disease did have a devastating impact on Indigenous peoples, but efforts to exterminate them were not successful. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z You can get a disease that can make you blind? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Mam says there’s one good thing about fleas, they’re clean, but flies are filthy, you never know where they came from and they carry diseases galore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I found the place overcrowded with black women, men and children seeking treatment for all kinds of diseases and injuries. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The rivers dried up; the rains refused to fall; the cattle and people died of disease. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z AIDS, as tragic as it is, pales in worldwide comparison to the more prosaic malaria, among other diseases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was positive the disease had been inflicted upon the poor officer in retribution by Major de Coverley, although no one was sure how. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So we didn’t know whether to believe him about the disease. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer told me he’d like to hang out at the conference, to meet people and to spread his message about disease and inequality, but he spent less time there than in our hotel room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z No, in the name of all that’s holy, it has to be chicken pox, a child’s disease, a disease that doesn’t even kill children on Earth! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the area, there were two small primary schools, a general store, and a dipping tank to rid the cattle of ticks and diseases. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s it, Homer,” Mr. Dubonnet chided him, “cough your lungs out. You might be the mine superintendent, but you’ve got the common miner’s disease.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was just beginning her long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and each time I entered the room, I felt the need to reintroduce myself and set her at ease. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “They fight, eat each other, bring diseases to each other &c, but then comes the more deadly struggle.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Figures avail able from the National Office of Vital Statistics clearly establish a disturbing rise in malignant diseases of the blood-forming tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boys have become infected, Cochran. Infected by a disease we could call apathy. A terrible disease. Difficult to cure.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The so-called Dutch elm disease entered the United States from Europe about 1930 in elm burl logs imported for the veneer industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Boston and New York have already been ravaged by the disease, with hospitals being filled to beyond capacity, and the deadly disease is moving west across the United States. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z "It's really nothing," she reported bravely, "just some sort of wasting disease. But pity me not, I shall live out my remaining time enjoying each precious day to the full." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knew what had killed the nun, but clearly it was a replicating agent, and the signs and symptoms of the disease were not easy to consider with a calm mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The way they examined everyone for disease and malady.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was not a deadly disease as it was in 1917 but with children it had a tendency to go into the mastoids. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just because of the diseases, but because, she said, “sex affects emotions in ways you’d never expect.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the Megalosaurus, and the name was actually suggested to Buckland by his friend Dr. James Parkinson, the would-be radical and eponym for Parkinson’s disease. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Almost half the people who got the disease died. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z They would wait behind their siege lines, flinging stones at her until famine and disease had brought her people to their knees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Had I caught a disease from Nergal or one of his demons? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There were no statistics about how many others died from infectious and other diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And it was now clear that Etty had diphtheria, a disease that was new to England. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was seven, she begins, I had an intestinal disease that went untreated for lack of money to buy medicine. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It is the kind of thing that one must continue to do until there is a genuine understanding of the mechanisms involved in disease. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could have frozen the stupid disease that had slowly messed up Abuela’s lungs. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Human beings who ate infected beef also got the disease, although there were no human cases reported in the United States. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When the strange fit was over, the disease was truly defeated. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a recent study of the reaction to dying in patients with obstructive disease of the lungs, it was concluded that the process was considerably more shattering for the professional observers than the observed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I own that such is not known; but that indeed, the scholars of the College believed the disease was caused by the inhalation of truculent animalcula. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z New York entomologists have learned by experience what kinds of beetle-breeding material have real importance in the spread of the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And Adah, helpful as always, would chime in with the list of what disease organisms were likely to be present. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They are more subject to disease in winter and the cold lowers their vitality. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In both, as in New England, epidemic disease arrived before the first successful colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus, questions of the animal origins of human disease lie behind the broadest pattern of human history, and behind some of the most important issues in human health today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmer knew that meager incomes didn’t guarantee disease and early death, but the two usually went together. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Whoever came to him suffering, whether from wounded limbs or bodies wasting away with disease, even those who were sick unto death, he delivered from their torment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just can’t get away right now, Dad. It’s my work. I’m in the middle of a serious outbreak of disease.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She told us how some of the needles they used were infected and that some people got skin diseases. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z No one got the disease anymore, since everyone knew at sixteen they’d turn beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In addition to being paranoid, confused, and intermittently tech-nophobic, defectors tend to suffer from preventable diseases and conditions that are all but nonexistent in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It took some getting used to, Morrie admitted, because it was, in a way, complete surrender to the disease. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been suggested that Vincent van Gogh may have suffered from a form of epilepsy and that his disease may have led him to have the many visions... The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the "shaking palsy," but known ever since as Parkinson’s disease. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Sure, he was a good friend—one of the only people at camp who didn’t treat her as if she had a contagious disease. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Environmental diseases related to the use of various toxic substances have been increasing, “particularly during the past ten years,” Dr. Hargraves believes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The disease affects at least one teenaged American girl every 30 seconds. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, most people in agricultural and industrial societies lived in dense, unhygienic permanent settlements—ideal hotbeds for disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All I need is to go back home with some dread disease. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She conjured diseases and spoke to them, and each of the diseases and infirmities that can hurt or wound a person agreed that it too would never touch Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Offhand, I cannot think of any important human disease for which medicine possesses the outright capacity to prevent or cure where the cost of the technology is itself a major problem. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From where he stood, the house looked as if it had been eaten by a galloping disease, the sores of which were dark and fluid. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Lord saw fit to take him home with a monkey disease, he was ready. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarcely one thousand natives remained on the peninsula, according to official figures; the disease had claimed more than five thousand lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When complaints came in about the foul smells wafting from the potter’s field—smells that many feared were spreading the disease—Israel went with James Sharswood to personally inspect burial procedures. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It seems to have spread as a kind of infectious disease exacerbated by the strains of ambition, affluence, family disintegration, and loneliness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Omakayas remembered the tiny whited pit in the skin of her grandmother’s cheek, but was still surprised to hear that Nokomis, too, had suffered the disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z All this time I thought she only saw my disease. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He showed no signs of disease, so I did not visit him again after that. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z An extensive program of research is under way in the United States Department of Agriculture laboratory at Peoria, Illinois, to find a way to culture the organism of milky disease on an artificial medium. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The spaniel has a skin disease—mange, I think—which makes almost all its hair fall out and leaves it covered with brown sores and scabs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Commonwealth Pier is currently overwhelmed with the disease, and new cases are being transferred to Chelsea Naval Hospital. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But she owed it to her mother to see that he didn’t catch some shameful disease or, worse, run off with a Turkish girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wonder if she’s inventing new ways to steal sympathy from her friends—new diseases to feign to make them more loyal. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Within two years, HIV, cerebral palsy, Huntington's disease, blindness, polio, and male pattern baldness are eradicated. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I try to explain that Mam has the disease and I’m worn out trying to make ends meet, keeping the home fires burning, getting lemonade for Mam and bread for my brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Theo has been living with the disease for a long time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But that conclusion presents a paradox: such diseases could never have existed before then! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The reason why the combination of those four traits tends to make a disease run in epidemics is easy to understand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Most of the diseases you can do something about like take lots of pills. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three of them, anyway. They’re shallow and rather rough, but there’s no smell of death or disease and they’re perfectly sound. I thought they might do for us—just for the moment, anyway.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither the Indians nor the Pilgrims had our contemporary under standing of infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This disease is everywhere, and it’s like the only medical equipment I have to fight back with is a Q-tip. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Not a disease, just like a thing, man. It’s hard to explain. Like, she’s just so cool. She got like a thing, like a swag about her.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper believes that our situation with regard to cancer today is very similar to that which faced mankind with regard to infectious diseases in the closing years of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Least of all Neto, the young doctor-poet who just meant to spare his people from the scarring diseases of smallpox and humiliation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We are still beset by plain diseases, and we do not control them; they are loose on their own, afflicting us unpredictably and haphazardly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost 53,500 of their comrades had been killed in action, more than 63,100 of them had died from disease and other causes, and some 205,000 had been wounded. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They had been dying of disease and starvation, and the few goats they kept had been dying as well. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z No doctor in Boston knew more than she about midwifery and children’s diseases. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the kid was obsessed with disease and infection. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Still, so many soldiers in the Continental army fell during the epidemic that revolutionary leaders feared that the disease would bring an end to their revolt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was, in reality, the result of multiple and rare diseases contracted on his innumerable trips around the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Although the first known human cases in the United States appeared only as recently as 1962, Lyme disease is already reaching epidemic proportions in many parts of our country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Have I heard of the new disease which will turn us all into deformed cretins unless the paper companies are forced to stop dumping mercury into the rivers? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If used as part of a systematic program of research in disease and physiology, Herophilus’s timer might have taught ancient doctors much about the circulation of the blood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. It just happens to some people. That’s the way autoimmune diseases are.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Only in tropical northern Australia did malaria and other tropical diseases force Europeans to abandon their 19th-century attempts at settlement, which succeeded only with the development of 20th-century medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many risk factors for chronic diseases are now more common among the less educated than the better educated. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s clear now that mosquitoes, animals, and human disease go together. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He coined more than fifty medical terms still in use today and defined a host of new diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Although millions of fever cases were studied and thousands of autopsies performed, not much new was learned about the disease during the entire nineteenth century. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is the adult beetles, emerging from hibernation to feed in late April and May, that transmit Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He worked with sickness and disease his whole adult life. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For centuries many of the inhabitants of this region suffered from what came to be known as “the Reichenstein disease” — chronic arsenicism with accompanying disorders of the liver, skin, and gastrointestinal and nervous systems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some died of the disease before they received their sentences. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I will not pay you a penny! Go! You are a disease infecting our country! We need walls against you!” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Multiple genetic mutations are identified in human cancers, leading to a deeper genetic understanding of that disease. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Lazear’s early attempts to show that mosquitoes could transmit the disease from a sick person to a healthy one failed in all but one case. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The tiny robots are too small to see with the naked eye, but are capable of cooperating to eradicate any disease and to repair any damage done to the human body. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z No matter how old she was, the woman was always surrounded: by men, by flowers, by laughter, by children...and then by disease, by screams, and smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Could there be a mountain disease that takes your strength? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His younger brother, Thomas, also had the disease but survived. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There she kept the pigeons of Delhi from spreading disease. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For the thousandth time I realize anew how hard my disease is on her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, the disease must have flown from the bodies and into my eyes, making them red as the blood I poke at with my stick. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course man is not alone in being subject to snail-borne disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Patients with the most acute form of the disease can trigger an episode by simply thinking about their romantic interest. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Introduced cattle and goats, kept in small numbers, suffer from tropical diseases, just as do European people themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These admirable institutions are demonstrably useful for the management of certain forms of mental disease, but that is another matter. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease, from which I have not managed a full recovery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Since neither pigs nor chickens can be harnessed to pull carts, highlanders remained without sources of power other than human muscle power, and also failed to evolve epidemic diseases to repel the eventual European invaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then nervously added, “I have Hemingway’s liver disease.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Thus, food production and thousands of years of societal evolution following its adoption were as essential for the evolution of writing as for the evolution of microbes causing human epidemic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First of all, there is a large body of what might be termed “nontechnology,” impossible to measure in terms of its capacity to alter either the natural course of disease or its eventual outcome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to think of something else, but my mind was full of vaguely remembered horror stories of the diseases that ran wild during this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The price is never as high as the cost of managing the same diseases during the earlier stages of no-technology or halfway technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not know any details of her love affair—who the man was or what the circumstances, whether it was religion or a living wife, a disease or a selfishness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Get them off the plantation and they learned to read, it was a disease. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Supposed that one counts the number of cases of some particular infectious disease in some geographic area, and watches how the numbers change with time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disease had advanced very quickly, and had taken him to the point where he was nearly incapable of leading a normal fife. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t have much left to eat, so they began killing the farmers’ chickens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Any wound makes it harder to fight off disease and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The conquistadors knew the potential impact of disease, but its actual impact, which they could not control, was in the hands of God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As Joel puts it, “Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I try not to think about how many diseases could spread this way as I dip my spoon into a can of soup. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I felt like I was being consumed from within like a person with one of those freak diseases where you digest your own stomach. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Liver disease in cattle, sheep, goats, deer, elk, rabbits, and various other warm-blooded animals may be caused by liver flukes that spend part of their life cycles in fresh-water snails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The clinical symptoms of the disease served as a reminder of the fact that Ebola is related to certain kinds of flu-like illnesses seen in human children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sedentary farmers become surrounded not only by their feces but also by disease transmitting rodents, attracted by the farmers’ stored food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While no one knew the exact origin of yellow fever, most ordinary citizens as well as many medical professionals insisted it was an imported disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately DDT was hailed as a means of stamping out insect- borne disease and winning the farmers’ war against crop destroyers overnight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yellow fever as we know it now might be conquered, but another version of the disease will eventually emerge to challenge us again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Think of all the germs of disease that you might have gathered in the long walk through the passageway. Wash again and we will begin.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In view of the severe damage they inflict upon the nervous system, it was perhaps inevitable that these insecticides would eventually be linked with mental disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Instead I’ll assume it translates directly into the name of the disease: ‘nemserria,’ thus preventing any unnecessary strain on our friendship.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I won’t be a bit happy if you catch some nasty disease. Not a bit.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z You are at a place called Sullivan’s Island, where you will be kept for ten days, until they are sure you have no disease. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned more about the cruelty of Jalazone life from the infectious diseases my brothers brought home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Eighteen Ojibwa died of the disease, and one tried to kill himself by other means. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z For example, you might take a type of corn that resists disease and cross it with another type of corn that produces a lot of ears. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Smallpox and other European diseases didn’t exist in the Americas, and so every Indian was susceptible to them in this way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were being forced to live in crowded ghettos, where many would die from disease and starvation. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “In a couple of weeks I’m supposed to spend the day with a nine-year-old girl dying of some disease. I was her wish!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I wondered dully whether the mosquito that had just bitten me was carrying the disease. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z This disease—what I’m going through—would be so much harder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The gangs had all been laid low by disease. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And if Asheville, the largest surviving city within hundreds of miles, really had erected walls to keep itself safe from the disease, things must be bad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He turned the Inca people into slaves and they died by the thousands from harsh work and disease. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Especially useful contributions have been made by ecological geographers, cultural anthropologists, biologists studying plant and animal domestication, and scholars concerned with the impact of infectious diseases on history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship . . . extinct languages, such as Zuni and Spanish and Athapascan . . . pumas, porcupines and other ferocious animals . . . infectious diseases . . . priests . . . venomous lizards ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On his advice, the runs and burrows of the various Marks were not connected underground, so that disease or poison, if they came, would spread less readily. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an ambitious and humorless Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who confronted his responsibilities soberly and smiled only when some rival officer at the Santa Ana Army Air Force Base came down with a lingering disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The patient’s condition and diet and lifestyle put him at serious risk of developing heart disease over the next few years. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I looked at Nigel, wondered whether the disease could be as unimportant as he thought. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t the war he wanted. The one he wanted was on poverty and ignorance and disease, and that was worth putting your life into.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Almost all the deaths were from diseases brought by Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He never again was troubled by any blight or disease among them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I think it likely that many of our diseases work in this way. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the newcomers moved west, they were preceded by a wave of disease and then a wave of ecological disturbance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And if scientists could figure out how to turn disease genes off, they might be able to create a form of gene therapy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As a result, hundreds of millions of people were now susceptible to getting yellow fever and other deadly diseases carried by Aedes aegypti. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In the 1860s, doctors hadn't yet learned that microbes cause disease. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dot Miller hissed back, “Go on, catch yourself a disease.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Spraying for Dutch elm disease began in a small way on the university campus in 1954. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So as the story goes on, she gets sicker, the treatments and disease racing to kill her, and her mom falls in love with this Dutch tulip trader Anna calls the Dutch Tulip Man. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “That’s primordial ooze! It’s brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called ‘disease.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We are really not all that good at preventing disease or preserving health—not yet anyway— and we are not likely to be until we have learned a great deal about disease mechanisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was angry at the way the disease had ravaged her. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all scooched over tight on the other side, like I might give them some disease or something. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z A gigantic leopard that moves silently despite its size and whose breath causes disease virulent enough to eliminate entire villages, it has never yet been subdued by fewer than a hundred skilled wizards working together. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The series of forced migrations, along with such “white man’s diseases” as smallpox, had taken a tremendous toll on the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And then Kelton says, “There’s nothing scary about a body bag. They’re for transport and to prevent the spread of disease. I have one in my room; I use it for laundry.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But I never imagined the common disease of the mine could affect my dad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Many of the villagers are getting sicker and sicker from disease and starvation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They had already died from the disease. I was alone. That was why he chose me. In all the chaos of the epidemic, no one would ever realize I was gone.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s a vast congregation of hunger, infectious disease, and desperation, masquerading as opportunity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, patients would often use only enough of these medicines to reduce the symptoms, saving the rest for future bouts of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The speaker of the senate, Samuel Powel, sought to reassure his fellow legislators by getting Dr. Rush’s advice on how to avoid the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Statistically speaking, a black woman living in the United States is most likely to die at the age of seventy-eight from heart disease.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We know, for instance, that Benjamin Rush was alert enough to recognize the disease before it had spread much beyond Water Street and sounded an alert. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z His mood infected the club like a disease; nothing ran smoothly anymore. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The C.D.C. is the federal agency that deals with emerging diseases. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But only on trial he stays. At the first sign of the cricketer friends, or if we come down with peculiar diseases—out he goes!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Did the last Greenland Norse starve to death, attempt to sail off, intermarry with Eskimos, or succumb to disease or Eskimo arrows? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It is hardly surprising, therefore, that we are now aware of an alarming increase in malignant disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Gladys’s son Gary believed all disease was the wrath of the Lord—punishment for Adam eating the apple from Eve. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Flies do not develop a ward round of diseases that carry them off, one by one. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mice may carry disease, and rats scare me, but today I don't think even they deserve to die. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And then, even in defiance of the cold weather and a dusting of snow, several of the recently returned residents developed symptoms of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z An even more alarming problem was that several mosquito-borne diseases had begun to change. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I prayed that whatever his disease had been, I wouldn’t get it, wouldn’t ever have to care for anyone else who had it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Imagine that you are a government official charged with procuring the funds to fight one of two proven killers: terrorist attacks and heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We speak of our own dead in low voices; struck down, we say, as though visible death can only occur for cause, by disease or violence, avoidably. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Again the diagnosis was acute leukemia, and again the disease ran its inevitably fatal course. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the advance in HIV/AIDS treatment protocols, the disease has been transformed from a certain death sentence to a manageable chronic illness—but only for those with access to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Better established is Lyme disease, caused by a spirochete that we get from the bite of ticks carried by mice and deer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his nose when he said the word Shi’a, like it was some kind of disease. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This drug-resistant type of malaria began to appear among U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, in which more soldiers were incapacitated by the disease than by battle wounds. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The viruses, instead of being single-minded agents of disease and death, now begin to look more like mobile genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mothers know everything and she’s always looking into our mouths to see if there’s any class of disease. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They want to prevent whatever new disease he’s spreading.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Over the bed flows one of those decorative mosquito nets fit for a queen, but here, it seems to be keeping disease in rather than out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As long as they don’t come home with a disease or a baby, what’s the big deal? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Don’t I wish. At this point, I’m getting black lung disease from inhaling too many construction paper molecules.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She had never seen anyone with destroyed vision before, though she had heard of such things happening through accident or disease. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the disease that stole Nate’s mama all those years ago. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She said it was a blood disease, about a luke. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “No weapon can hurt Balder. No disease. No rock. No tree. I have taken an oath from all the things there are that can harm.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He had written scholarly articles on the history of various diseases, often focusing on their connection to poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A car ride takes that newly infected person to a major city, where more Aedes aegypti mosquitoes wait to feed on him, then carry the disease to another and another and another person. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z If anyone at the time had suggested that this unknown disease in gay men in southern California came from wild chimpanzees in Africa, the medical community would have collectively burst out laughing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The disease is spread from diseased to healthy trees by elm bark beetles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, it illustrates an enormous subject of great importance: human diseases of animal origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A few years back, Farmer had talked him into training as an infectious disease specialist. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There was Hodgkin’s disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Bernard! How can you?” the passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of the skin distracted her from her indignation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “My best friend’s father has Alzheimer’s. It’s such a dreadful disease, and it causes him to act so strangely.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Neither the camel nor the gerbil existed in the Americas, so the disease never had a chance to exist there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Or else the disease has advanced far enough to alter his sight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Judging by the present incidence of the disease, the American Cancer Society estimates that 45,000,000 Americans now living will eventually develop cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Adam asked, “But suppose you had an accident, or maybe a disease?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Leprosy is a terrible disease, Crow. It...deforms people. Ruins their bodies. Their skin. Turns their hands into claws.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He spoke of the brotherhood between the American and the Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One can think of at least twenty major diseases that require this kind of supportive medical care because of the absence of an effective technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Malignant tumors were a common accompaniment of the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, more than fifty of the first colonial villages in New England were located on Indian communities emptied by disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So-called epidemic diseases, though, produce no cases for a long time, then a whole wave of cases, then no more cases again for a while. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It has a mandate from Congress to control human disease. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We even had to prove that we were germ-free, that we didn’t have smallpox or any dire disease that would infect the country. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Any sort of contagious disease would spread through this place like wildfire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This is the disease he has had since before he met Jo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Being the doctor, of course, she would know all about tropical diseases and wouldn’t care for Leah sounding like the expert. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And even after all this time, my daddy’s still not allowed to treat white patients. Like their diseases are high class or something.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A disease otherwise known as high blood pressure. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer asked if he wasn’t going to miss the work he’d done, because there was so much disease and the need for medical services was so urgent. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I’m going to send a blood sample to Kinshasa, see what diseases he might have. We’ll have to keep him separate from the other nursery bonobos for a few days, until I get it back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then the disease passed, leaving its ycrung victims disfigured but alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her mysterious disease was rampant in the neighbourhood and had already claimed an infant’s life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no way you could understand the hate. It’s like a disease.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The spread of infectious diseases was inevitable, as were bitter arguments among old neighbors who fought over ownership of the land that was left. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Also, with Rufus lying exposed as he was to new mosquito attacks, the disease could be spread over the plantation and beyond. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z This often happens when we are very miserable, because then the body’s defenses against disease are weakened. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It would have sounded more impressive if my voice hadn’t cracked in the middle of the word disease. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he starts talking about things like pathogens and disease transmission I look sharply at Katherine, who is staring at me like I just grew an extra head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You told Deacon Hurd that your grandfather gave you an old family disease?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Part of the public trust in such an eventual outcome results from the misconception that cancer is a single, though mysterious disease, with a single cause and, hopefully, a single cure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We know that many important drugs used to cure human diseases come from plants or even from insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When she says it’s a bad idea to sit down on the high school toilet seats without wiping them off first because you might get a disease, I say, “Who told you that? Your Mummie?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Ifemelu, his suicide attempt was from depression,” Aunty Uju said gently, quietly “It is a clinical disease. Many teenagers suffer from it.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As had been true in 1954, no evidence of infectious disease could be discovered on examination of the dead birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Death has always walked close—an earthquake, a hurricane, a disease, a thief and his knife. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Dr. Darwin was now in a wheelchair, Bessy was stuck in a fog, and Josiah was sinking from either a stroke or a degenerative neurological disease. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Still other infections of small human populations are chronic diseases such as leprosy and yaws. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The reemergence of the deadly disease did not stop people from returning to the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Does the rest of Mars die of a disease with a fine name or a terrifying name or a majestic name? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if I had contracted a disfiguring disease that was slowly but surely reshaping my face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Let’s see— monkeys that inhaled Marburg virus took a long time to develop the disease, from six to eighteen days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Impervious they were to disease or illness, said one of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Why did the rise of agriculture launch the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientists attribute the significantly larger population in the Americas to a relatively disease-free society whose use of herbal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and hygienic and ritual bathing kept disease at bay. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This is a disease for the person who wants to experience it all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She treated me like I had a disease. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “If I didn’t think these might be crawling with disease, I would kiss them and then you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Camenae began as useful and practical goddesses who cared for springs and wells and cured disease and foretold the future. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence measles and similar diseases are also known as crowd diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In my reading I’d come across a lot of information on malaria and none of it led me to believe the disease was as harmless as Nigel seemed to think. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow split a poor waboose, rabbit, and opened its skinny body to show that the creature was mush inside, a bloody pudding as the result of disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They’re working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a combination of Dark Magic and gum disease.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Just stupid stories and getting me into trouble and everyone looking at me like I’ve got a disease—” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But he did try to calculate how many died from Spanish disease and brutality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cancer of the male breast is also prevalent in parts of Africa, associated with liver disease and malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Jack, as it turns out, has kidney disease. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z When that happens, the group eventually gets weak and may get sick from all kinds of diseases. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was rumored that she had had no childhood diseases, was never known to have chicken pox, croup or even a runny nose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Perspiration was causing her cheek to stick to the plastic seat; she was convinced that she would develop a medium-serious skin disease within five minutes after she got off the bus. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Most often the minister was attracted by the pitiful shrieks and calls of the sick in the final stages of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It cannot do so, however, if it has been damaged by disease or chemicals, or if the supply of the B-complex vitamins has been reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That sickness is old age; and a horrible disease it is. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt strongly that Ebola is a disease that is not easy to catch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, the mysterious disease I had had might have been dormant and contagious. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The implication, implausible at first glance, was that Indians in their virgin-soil state were more vulnerable to European diseases than virgin-soil Europeans would have been. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Back in Georgia when my classmates started turning up in training brassieres, one after another, like it was a catching disease, I bobbed off my hair and vowed to remain a tomboy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Should it then attack a healthy person there is danger that it will inoculate him with the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “We can’t go back to where we came from. I’ve seen it, remembered awful, awful things. Burned land, a disease—something called the Flare. It was horrible—way worse than we have it here.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And through the Firebus ride to the game, as the mirrored softball spins, so does my brain: Maybe he was working on the cure for some disease. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “If the disease has disappeared as it no doubt has,” wrote “Howard” in that day’s General Advertiser, “every memento of its existence should disappear with it, that the citizens may once more enjoy repose.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I guess so. It’s like a disease, right? They can see it in our genes. That’s not really up for debate, is it?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He had a disease that was a science name. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This would seem reassuring and tidy, and there are some important disease problems for which it has already been done effectively, demonstrating that the direct, frontal approach does work. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A television journalist in the Farm Belt once said this about a suspected outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease: The pasture contained several cows seen by news reporters that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “An old family disease?” said Turner’s father after the evening service. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z We went that way through all the old childhood diseases except for chicken pox. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many of the employees got sick with tuberculosis, a highly contagious, incurable disease that often became fatal. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She trimmed the broken twig ends, so that the cuts would be cleaner, less apt to harbor disease. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then someone else told me all their diseases. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not mean to imply, however, that the role of disease in history was confined to paving the way for European expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother is a teacher and linguist; my father, a physician specializing in the genetics of childhood diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She drank them the same way, and as quickly As she drank the life out of my father, Though still not nearly as quickly as disease. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He told the first king, ‘You will die because your fingers will drop off. I give you the disease called leprosy.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If we became free of disease, we would make a much better run of it for the last decade or so, but might still terminate on about the same schedule as now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even during a period when a high percentage of the city’s elms were affected, no cases of Dutch elm disease were found among these trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hacking off afflicted parts did sometimes stop the spread of the disease, Tyrion knew, but not always. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hazel’s first idea was that Cowslip was showing the symptom of some kind of disease. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the expansive property of my father’s house stood high poplar, oak, the few elm not yet fallen with disease. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A classic illustration of how such diseases occur as epidemics is the history of measles on the isolated Atlantic islands called the Faeroes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was thought to hold promise for medicine, too: Edison marketed his inductorium, an induction coil, as a guaranteed cure for rheumatism, gout, nervous diseases, and sciatica. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tests to duplicate this one success also failed until a colleague of his on the commission, James Carroll, caught the disease from an infected insect and nearly died. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Now, I don’t want to rain on your parade, Charlie, but what if that dog isn’t friendly to people? What if he bites? What if he has some kind of dog disease?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Malaria and other infectious diseases weren’t going away, either. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Virchow viewed the world in a way that made sense to Farmer, his vision a comprehensive one that included pathology—the study of disease—with social medicine, politics, and anthropology. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Once they were out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away, as if Lina’s bad luck were a disease she might catch. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Since the disease may take a very long time to kill its victim, the victim remains alive as a reservoir of microbes to infect other members of the tribelet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But as the nineteenth century went along and the link between filth and disease became more apparent, public health codes were strengthened and enforced. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The plant would also lack genes for resistance to diseases of northern climates, while uselessly carrying genes for resistance to diseases of southern climates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Can you cure me of a disease?” he asked, his hands to the drawstring of his pants. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about? Politics isn’t a disease like polio. It’s something men talk about at the bus stop.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nyles said sadly, “But they lost that little girl. She got sick with a disease called cholera. She died from it, and she was only four years old.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hence let’s begin by temporarily setting aside our human bias and considering disease from the microbes’ point of view. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pigs breed exuberantly and can pass diseases to deer and turkeys, which then can infect people. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rush took any challenge, whether from a disease or from a colleague, as a personal attack to be confronted and conquered. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As he began talking, he read his audience a quotation from WHO: “MDR is too expensive to treat in poor countries; it detracts attention and resources from treating drug-susceptible disease.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Both the mayor and the governor wanted to confront and contain the disease as quickly as possible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, physiologist Sherburne F. Cook investigated the consequences of disease in the same area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he contemplated the many diseases and potential accidents threatening him, he was positively astounded that he had managed to survive in good health for as long as he had. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant, and I did not aspire to become the world’s only virgin with pubic lice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z These also prove to be agents of crowd infectious diseases—but ones confined to various species of our domestic animals and pets! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It seems so unfair that a whole family like this is struck by one disease, Farmer laments. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For decades the press had been reporting that cell culture was going to save the world from disease and make man immortal, but by 1951 the general public had stopped buying it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The wholesome and varied diet, the relatively short working week, and the rarity of infectious diseases have led many experts to define pre-agricultural forager societies as ‘the original affluent societies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was ordered that the soldiers should bathe in saltwater twice daily to fend off disease, I saw a regiment walk into the sea at dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When an epidemic of mumps broke out in the school, Katie went into action against communicable diseases. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Advocates working for the cures of various tragic diseases regularly do the same. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Because most Europeans contracted the disease in childhood, the great majority of European adults, the conquistadors among them, were immune. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fear, it seemed, was spreading even faster than the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z His unhealthy pallor suggests his coming Crohn’s disease. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I began to suffer from insomnia, the old people’s disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the military also recognized the potential for disease to make their work easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Robin said it could be a problem with disease or reproduction. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He still spent most of his time in Haiti, but as an attending specialist on the Brigham’s senior staff, he was sought after frequently for his diagnoses of ID—infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z An even greater number probably died from human violence, animal attacks, hunger, thirst, and disease. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in training for veterinary pathology, the study of disease in animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, human geneticists begin to use these techniques to map and identify genes linked to diseases, such as Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, she was leaving an obstetrician with a letter certifying her good health, her freedom from contagious diseases, and her properly configured anatomy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some are caused by microbes capable of maintaining themselves in animals or in the soil, with the result that the disease doesn’t die out but remains constantly available to infect people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So Woolf made another concession to his disease. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Malaria continues to claim more lives than any other disease, with some health organizations estimating up to 2 million deaths a year. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But chronic muscle disease pinned him down and he lost it all. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But only rarely, fortunately, does one of them infect one of us and cause this dread disease. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not feeling ill, are you?” he asked, a trifle anxiously, afraid that she might be suffering from one of the few remaining infectious diseases. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Every night and every morning after the dog had gotten that skin disease, Salamano rubbed him with ointment. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t give it to Sister Rita to say I was neglected or ripe for another disease. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I should have known. It’s the dependable part of the disease. Five to seven days after exposure. This is the seventh day.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Surely, I would get a disease if I drank from it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were torn apart by disease, drugs and alcohol, pride, fear, and anger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What’s true for measles in the Faeroes is true of our other familiar acute infectious diseases throughout the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was extremely ill after the last examination; the other, a middle-aged fellow, had some disorder or disease of the kidney, and was dying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z However, the radiation produced in a nuclear war, among its many other effects, debilitates the body’s immunological system, causing a deterioration of our ability to resist disease. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to grab her other hand, but she places it behind her back like I got a contagious disease. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Smoking is without doubt a significant contributory cause of cancer, lung and heart disease, but there are confounding factors having to do with life-style and environment which partially obscured this fact for some years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Fear is a disease, too," said Belet, taking the phone back. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z As we hoped and prayed, Miss Riley’s disease went into remission. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Slash-and-burn was a product of European axes—and European diseases, which so shrank Indian groups that they adopted this less laborious but also less productive method of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The few carbon dates available suggest that the fields date from about three thousand years ago to about five hundred years ago—roughly the time the conquistadors arrived, bringing European diseases. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was surrounded by demons and standing only a few feet away from a god of disease, and yet I could stare him in the eye without flinching. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The heavy rains brought the disease down the streams and rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than the horse one, you have to nod and agree with them that cancer and heart disease are totally normal and respectable ways to eat it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z For many of the microbes responsible for our unique diseases, molecular biologists can now identify the microbe’s closest relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nokomis said, sorrowfully, that she had no medicines for this white man’s disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z So broken were the Omaha by disease that according to tradition they launched a deliberately suicidal attack against their enemies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The X-rays showed a certain malformation of the uterus, I remember, which meant she could never have had a child, but that was quite apart, it had nothing to do with the disease.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You do not have this disease called FOP. Or any disease called anything.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Total surprise followed by looking at me like I was a disease on two feet. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z SAD is an extremely contagious disease that causes total memory loss in those who contract it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z What curse, disease, or epidemic has he unleashed in our town? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Heightening the panic was what the list did not offer: A cure for the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A girl named Rose says, “Well, because of her cells the medical field had major breakthroughs, like the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and the creation of drugs that treat leukemia, influenza, and Parkinson’s disease.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z But I knew her sick from the disease that would not go, her legs bunched under the yellow sheets, the bones gone limp as worms. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence said hang it, we ought to be die first ones in, we’d probably give the Rebs a disease and be more useful than any other outfit in the whole army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like our family had come down with a horrible, incurable disease or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Don’t call me Wheeze! I’m a person, not a disease symptom.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Jones did not pursue the rumors, and was never able to confirm the nature of the disease. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliza lived close to the river, where the disease had started. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is the disease, and who has it?” the old man said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So I visit the local shopping mall, which fortunately has its share of disease. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z "The doctor says your disease is incurable, but you could have a remission lasting five years, even more, if you take good care of yourself and don't overdo it." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw it in my father, in the way he moved around as if nothing were wrong with his body, as if the disease that would someday take his life just didn’t exist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One reason they should come forward, Rush contended, was that God had seen fit to grant blacks a special resistance to the dreaded disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease’s ravaging effect on circulation and immunity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Yellow fever was one of the most vicious diseases in the world and could create panic anywhere. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In this fantasy, eventually race will no longer be a factor in mortality rates, the spread of disease, educational or economic opportunity, or the distribution of wealth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At first we reckoned they tried out different diseases and medicines, but there’d be no reason to start that all of a sudden two or three years back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It’s just that she didn’t show any signs of the silent cat-killing disease. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Didn’t the señor know that salt water would purify the book and banish disease? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if there had been a fire, or an outbreak of a contagious disease, or if a band of ruthless highwaymen had been spotted nearby! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Another example of a technically correct yet misleading statistic is the fact that heart disease and cancer are the two leading killers of Americans. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They will bring terrible diseases the people have never known. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases that could kill other primates, including humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the white missionaries—valiant men like Dr. Livingstone—heard the call and braved treacherous seas and jungles and disease to bring our ancestors Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a real possibility that tens of thousands faced starvation and disease. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “As a veterinarian, I have certain responsibilities with regard to the transportation of dead animals, sir. I can’t just knowingly ship a dead animal with an infectious disease across state lines.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If this is true, the odd virus disease, on which we must focus so much of our attention in medicine, may be looked on as an accident, something dropped. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This is so new a field of study that as yet scientists have been more concerned with identifying the chromosome abnormalities associated with disease and defective development than with speculating about the causes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I don’t get why folks act like being poor is a disease, like it’s wrong or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Why does he have to get all the interesting diseases?’ she moaned to Mum and Dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to get any of my blood on you. Blood carries the disease. And you’ll want to boil our clothes, or bum them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And it was realized that workers in the cobalt mines in Saxony and in the uranium mines at Joachimsthal in Bohemia were subject to a disease of the lungs, later identified as cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first stage is illustrated by dozens of diseases that we now and then pick up directly from our pets and domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The older boy had also mentioned burned earth and a disease. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the hundreds of thousands of troops who died in the war, disease killed more than twice as many men as battlefield wounds. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But knowing that a mosquito could spread the disease proved vital in Cuba. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The fact is that what scientists call zoonotic disease was little known in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lolo has had a disease for years and you didn’t tell me?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Dismissing the impact of disease, in her view, is simply a way to reduce the original population of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The world was then full of disease germs, as today it is full of carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He started telling me how he’d acquired a rare tropical disease after getting into a bloody fistfight with some Nigerian drug dealers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Native American diseases instead decimate the Spanish invaders, spread back to Europe, and wipe out 95 percent of Europe’s population? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge is shared freely, old barriers are eliminated as humanity races to find cures for diseases once considered beaten. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Anyone suffering from a hereditary disease can be sterilized by a surgical operation,” the law mandated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him, and I am telling you now, that although she’d been savaged by her awful disease, she was a beautiful woman. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They even lost their cattle to disease borne by tsetse flies in the forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He tells me how TB is such a deceptive disease; it doesn’t always reveal itself by a sputum culture, as it did for the father. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, if laboratory mice have too much HLA diversity, Black told me, researchers can’t use them to observe the progress of an infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Farmer method: first you cure the family of TB, then you change the conditions that made them vulnerable to the disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Plants are also adapted to the diseases prevalent at their latitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the problem with the wasting disease. The whole forest was littered with carcasses that year, just rotting away. We couldn’t do anything with them. Their meat and hides were useless.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Today most historians and anthropologists believe the culprit was disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, Hoover himself had interviewed her in Washington, not once, but twice, and he arranged for a government expert on “mental diseases” to evaluate her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in the slow heat of summer, long before dawn, Volkheimer paces in the harsh dazzle of the billboard lights and feels his loneliness on him like a disease. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This means that malignant disease will strike two out of three families. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The dark shadow had passed, and a fair vision had visited him in this land of disease. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His patient Dr. Tiusoke has himself become a celebrity, in die annals of disease. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Running from an attack, running from a disease. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Both involved quarantines—the practice of isolating someone with a highly infectious disease from the healthy population. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She’d wept bitterly when her mother had died of the disease as well, but not one tear had given her a bite to eat or a place to stay. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States took over the project in 1904 and encountered the same disease enemies as the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z On that day, she had followed the sickness inside and determined to do battle with the evil spirit of the disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “MALEVOLENCE! Evil! Bound by rotten malevolence, and carriers of disease via their....Oh no.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Just a month after a note in her medical record said she was fine, another doctor wrote, “In view of the rapid extension of the disease process the outlook is quite poor.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa is the continent where protohumans evolved for the longest time, where anatomically modern humans may also have arisen, and where native diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed European explorers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disease rapidly gained ground, but Root remained committed to the engagement, even though it was clear to everyone he was marrying a dead woman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In several places, the gray was peeling away to reveal the pink, so it looked like the Very Friendly Animal Center had a skin disease. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Discover how a disease spreads, the trajectory of infection, and we approach a cure.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I heard they did a lot of research and some of her cells have develop a lot of curing other diseases. It’s a miracle, that’s all I can say.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A quick survey of current diseases lets us trace out four stages in the evolution of a specialized human disease from an animal precursor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some public health experts worry that other diseases like mad cow could start to appear because of this practice. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That lavatory will kill us with all diseases. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Biologically they do not belong to the type of organisms that cause disease in higher animals or in plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It haunted him through and through, witnessing what the disease did to people. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A maze of mysteries, a disease of uncontrollable darkness, for this maze—it lives. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The voyageurs trembled at the thought that the disease might already have chosen one of them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z An even more important role has been played by a bacterial disease that affects beetles of the family to which the Japanese beetle belongs — the scarabaeids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For some reason, everyone thinks that if you’ve got a disease or a disorder or are sick, you become a saint. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Of all the diseases, I think to myself Morrie gets one named after an athlete. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She is required by law to wear plastic gloves—I guess in case I have some kind of infection or disease. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z SAD cases are admitted for free care at the Amnesia Sanctuary on Nomansan Island, a state-of-the-art facility where patients live comfortably, under strict quarantine, while the cure for their disease is sought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z While the chances of avoiding any particular disease or accident may be encouraging, the probability of avoiding them all is not. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Institute conducts research into ways to protect soldiers against biological weapons and natural infectious diseases. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t want any more diseases and infections. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mama and Baba had been taken away by ambulance because of some unknown disease. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Around 8500 BC, when wild plants gave way to wheat fields, the oasis supported a large but cramped village of 1,000 people, who suffered far more from disease and malnourishment. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the old mosquito—and with it the disease—had been absent so long, hardly anyone had built up an immunity to yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z To his amazement, 20 percent of the healthy patients soon developed mild cases of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z My doctor says he can help my symptoms, but we don’t have the coverage to do anything vuvv about the disease itself. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Kathy mentioned the roving gangs, the toxic chemicals, the diseases that were being unearthed and spread. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He'd given them a disease—probably an ancient one the doctors didn't know about. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It seemed suggestive, however, that DDD produced in dogs a condition very similar to that occurring in man in the presence of Addison’s disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Echolalia is a mental disease which makes people immediately repeat things that well people around them say. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the countryside that year, everything happened: drought, snails, and hoof-and-mouth disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That they would all soon find themselves caught in the middle of one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in history. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z As new Malthusian limits were imposed—diseases, famines, parasites—new breeds gained a stronghold, and the population shifted again. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What is actually going on in those stages, as an exclusive disease of animals transforms itself into an exclusive disease of humans? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet another type of explanation lists the immediate factors that enabled Europeans to kill or conquer other peoples—especially European guns, infectious diseases, steel tools, and manufactured products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1959, in spite of six years’ spraying, the university campus had lost 86 per cent of its elms, half of them victims of Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This chapter will begin by considering what a “disease” is, and why some microbes have evolved so as to “make us sick,” whereas most other species of living things don’t make us sick. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides that, our potatoes have contracted such strange diseases that one out of every two buckets of pommes de terre winds up in the garbage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If only I could play a head-bopping song that would put an end to this incurable disease. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But I also like the cable channels that talk about stuff' like kings and the kingdoms they conquered or doctors and the diseases they cured. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Havana and Panama campaigns controlled yellow fever and the Aedes aegypti mosquito in those regions, but they did not eliminate the disease completely. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I am frequently hospitalized for a lung disease called cystic fibrosis. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "She made up her so-called wasting disease, I call that crazy. Nothing was wrong with her legs until the explosion in the Chinese restaurant." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Cootie figured that car saved him from getting some new disease. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The annals of medicine are full of accounts of diseases that sound like no disease known today, but that once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared as mysteriously as they had come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Four years afterward, a traveler noted in his diary that the Nermernuh lived in fear of disease because they had been recently struck by smallpox—tenuous but suggestive evidence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The spores of the disease occur in soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Without proper sanitation, disease swept through Durham’s slums like an armed invader, carrying off the young, the old, and the weak. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A tropical mosquito that carries parasites responsible for such diseases as elephantiasis has become strongly resistant in many parts of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course they were growing and surviving decades after her death, of course they floated through the air, and of course they’d led to cures for diseases and been launched into space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z These compounds help plants to defend themselves against pests and diseases. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Similarly, the spread southward of Fertile Crescent domestic animals through Africa was stopped or slowed by climate and disease, especially by trypanosome diseases carried by tsetse flies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague. They bite someone who’s sick with it, then later they bite healthy people and give them the disease.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The derelict bodies of the poor were found in abandoned houses, disfigured with disease’s scabs, swaddled in table-clothes and all the refinements of shattered luxury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It is easy to see why leukemia should be one of the most common diseases to result from exposure to radiation or to chemicals that imitate radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And the more we got sick, the more diseases spread. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Our chances of escaping lung disease may be 95 percent; dementia, 90 percent; cancer, 80 percent; and heart disease, 75 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But what I gather from what Mother writes me now is that she works night and day wearing a horrid white coat in some dreary big-deal place in Atlanta where they study disease organisms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who knows when he got it—if he had it as long as Misty, or just got it from being with her when she died—but he was crazy like mad cow disease.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Ugh! Ugh! Now I must go wash at once! Who knows what diseases these creatures must carry, after living so long in the wild?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Katie’s campaign against vermin and disease started the day her children entered school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While no one knew what caused yellow fever, the doctors agreed that foul smells were not healthy and might promote disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z That’s not to say, though, that small human populations are free from all infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Before a cure can be found, the cause must be discovered. But in this case, Cochran, the cause is known. The carrier of the disease is known.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I found out later that he had begun chemotherapy for his disease, and that one of the many side effects was nausea. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z So do the chimps.One day, perhaps quite soon, scientists may not need to use animals for testing drugs and for learning about human diseases. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z If Dobyns was right, disease claimed the lives of 80 to 100 million Indians by the first third of the seventeenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s beneficial to wonder occasionally what percentage of people you encounter suffer from this or that disease or inadequacy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The relation between various insects and many diseases of man is an ancient one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Urbana, Illinois, where the University of Illinois is located, Dutch elm disease first appeared in 1951. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It tides patients over through diseases that are not, by and large, understood. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I call out the window and tell him I can’t open the door because my mother is in bed with a terrible disease. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They hardly spoke to one another, except to point to a tool or to a sign of disease in a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidence seems to prove that this is a germ disease spread principally by human contact, chiefly through coughing, sneezing, or spitting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He developed a very bad patent habit, a disease many men suffer from. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But how lucky, when you think about it, that these diseases are at least species specific. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I fear I might have given the disease to them because I dare to look at the dead bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd made my way to the hospital, past thousands of poxies, bewildered as their diseases receded and their health was restored. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys and girls also had to prove that they were healthy and had no hereditary diseases. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I just sit there in a full classroom with a circle of empty desks around me like I’ve got some terrible disease no one wants to catch. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z John had nasopharyngeal carcinoma, an extremely rare cancer that attacks the throat and nasal passages, but if the disease is caught early, 60 to 70 percent of patients can be cured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Well, get a terminal disease, Dad, and then I’ll stay home more.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It sounds more like something you would order at an Italian restaurant than a skin disease. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In addition, measles and some of our other “childhood” diseases are more likely to kill infected adults than children, and all adults in the tribelet are susceptible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those who were spared death by disease faced death by famine. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been threatened with axes, chainsaws, diseases, and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Instead, they had to evolve as new diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He described the clinical signs of disease that he had seen at the monkey house, and by the end he felt that no one had noticed his nervousness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z None showed signs of disease — only the erratic movements of the dying and a strange deep wine color of the gills. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As one moves along a north-south axis, one traverses zones differing greatly in climate, habitat, rainfall, day length, and diseases of crops and livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS/HARRY: The second is a disease of the egg, the less fair of those who walk on two legs. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “How do you manage to keep up on so many diseases like that?” he inquired with high professional esteem. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I know some people lose their hair because of one disease or another, but this girl looked like she shaved her head. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He does, still with that look on his face like I might have given him a disease from my ginger ale spitting. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I remembered that after the orientation the old- timers started telling us about the diseases they said the lieutenant overlooked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With the roots intact, it looked as if it had simply been felled by disease. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was having an attack of Meniere’s disease. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a disease that strikes foxes sometimes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Dies of heart disease in 1870, perhaps die most beloved General in the history of American war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Librans would have to worry about dying from earth diseases, or carrying them back to Libra and infecting others. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the big front windows of the dance halls, people gyrated to pounding music as though they were struck with some serious disease. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Only in larger populations can the disease shift from one local area to another, thereby persisting until enough babies have been born in the originally infected area that measles can return there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The worst part was disease: if anybody got sick with anything serious, everybody on the ship was liable to get it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t saved this varmint from a wolf to lose her to some cow disease. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Because famine and epidemic disease had been rare in the Dawnland, its inhabitants had none of the pox scars or rickety limbs common on the other side of the Atlantic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She thinks I may be catching, like a disease or any form of bad luck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Another eight million civilians perished because they were caught in the cross fire, or struck down by the starvation and disease that war brings with it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When Gale questioned the existence of the hospital, he was not thinking of disease, but this. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The water looked awful and murky and the very embodiment of disease, but once it was cupped in my hand gave the impression of overbrewed tea. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Bleeding, purges and emetics were still used to cure disease. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The evidence for a germ theory of disease was available for hundreds and hundreds of years before medical orthodoxy was capable of looking at it freshly enough to accept it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Arguments from the opposition were far from over, but no one could say anymore that cost alone ruled out treating the disease in poor countries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His tough and authoritarian leadership style was necessary in the wild where disease, Indian attacks, and the inhospitable environment relentlessly threatened everyone’s lives. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It is a symptom, not a disease in itself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had been around monkeys and monkey diseases for a long time, and he was not particularly frightened. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunch, I ask Albert and Keisha about some diseases I can use as an excuse not to go. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Many miners developed black lung disease after ten to fifteen years of working underground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He has been down that spring with the first assault of the heart disease which will eventually kill him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, when the human population became sufficiently large and concentrated, we reached the stage in our history at which we could at last evolve and sustain crowd diseases confined to our own species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When ingested by a foraging beetle grub they multiply prodigiously in its blood, causing it to turn an abnormally white color, hence the popular name, “milky disease.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I was, of course, sorry there was so much poverty and disease in Haiti, and I admired Farmer for his work, but I also felt that I couldn’t be sorry enough to satisfy him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After they come down with the disease, their immune system trains itself, so to speak, to fight off the virus, and they never catch it again, no matter how often they are exposed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Obviously, crowd diseases could not sustain themselves in small bands of hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burn farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay. Versh.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it’s diseases: heart attacks, cancer, the betrayals of the body. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Its decline was largely a consequence of the importation of parasitic insects from the Far East and of the establishment of disease organisms fatal to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We’re nomads: We live where it’s best for the cattle, where there’s good grass and water, away from disease and pests. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z All these types of diseases, characteristic of small isolated populations, must be the oldest diseases of humanity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Mia, you don’t have a disease. You don’t even have a problem, exactly. What you have, based on what your mother told me, is a condition that is harmless. It’s called synesthesia.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The diseases of his patients lay scattered in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In some parts of the world disease can be linked with spraying in quite a different way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Do you see that, Ellie? Growing old is a terrible disease. Things you take for granted, you lose. Your ability to walk. Your vision. Your hearing. Even being able to go to the bathroom.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It is unclear whether the blindness proceeded from the invasion of the disease in the ocular area or from an internal nervous disorganization attendant upon her distemper. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad, being an expert on disease, talked her down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Microbiologists and physicians study diseases mainly to cure people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want to catch some gross disease? He probably hasn’t had a bath since Christmas,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z And before Genie could even think on whether or not Grandpop being blind was, in fact, a sickness—especially since he said glaucoma was a disease—another question popped out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And if Africa ever made the evening news, it was because of a disease outbreak. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My community’s love and emotional support helped me and my family through our trying time and has kept my hope alive that one day we’ll put an end to this disease. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Having a revulsion against disease, she paid for regular inspection of her girls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I suppose there’s A time in practically every young boy’s life when he’s affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1882, Robert Koch of Germany identified the microbe that caused the dreaded disease tuberculosis. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The maximum capacity of the arena is three thousand people, which is more than perfect for Deckers, their guests, those with incurable diseases, and anyone else looking to enjoy the experience. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Some of us can’t stand cold northern winters with their short days and characteristic germs, while others of us can’t stand hot tropical climates with their own characteristic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s pleasant there till Michael starts to worry over Alphie getting Mam’s disease and me getting hanged for an outlaw. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Many starved to death or died of disease. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Our bodies evolved to use those same compounds to protect us from disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, a bleakness and borderlessness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was not a serious disease anyway if you took it in time, they said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Initially she assigned the devastation of Tennessee—the blaze and the disease—to justice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We’re all fine. We’re all just fine,” my mom said, but I wasn’t so sure because her head was bobbing around like she was in the early stages of some shaky disease or something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A woman screamed as I brushed past her, and folks started fleeing from her as if she were infected with some fatal disease. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Finally, we’ll see how insight into the animal origins of our infectious diseases helps explain the momentous, almost one-way exchange of germs between Europeans and Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disease had left Morrie without the ability even to wiggle his toes, yet he could still feel pain, and massages helped relieve it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a better world if this were not true, but the fact is that diseases do not develop just because of carelessness about the preservation of health. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, a quantity of iodine as small as two ten-thousandths of a gram spells the difference between health and disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Also, as Dr. Steinhaus points out, outbreaks of insect disease in nature always remain confined to insects, affecting neither the host plants nor animals feeding on them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants’ killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians’ being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing to be nervous about! So it’s a big game. But in the grand scheme of things, in a world rife with famine, disease, war, natural disasters, and crime, is a game all that important?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z They would show the world that beating back the dread disease was possible everywhere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Patients with yellow fever were isolated in rooms with screens on the windows so that mosquitoes couldn’t feed on their infected blood and then transmit the disease to healthy individuals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose the Ohio prison because its inmates had cooperated in several other studies without resistance, including one in which they’d been infected with a potentially deadly disease called tularemia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z From the day my uncle died, I believed that I would suffer a similar death, an untimely disease that would take me out. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a terrible disease, tuberculosis, which he had heard about. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Examples are the blood flukes, or schistosoma, that cause serious disease in man when they enter the body by way of drinking water or through the skin when people are bathing in infested waters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Agencies concerned with vector-borne disease are at present coping with their problems by switching from one insecticide to another as resistance develops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is not, however, a technology in any real sense, since it does not involve measures directed at the underlying mechanism of disease. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mad cow is a brain disease that is always fatal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some boys went insane from constant exposure to disease, starvation, and death. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My wife and I had lost our first two children; we’d decided to abort after prenatal diagnoses of a rare but invariably fatal genetic disease. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Dr. Masuku was looking for a disease to make the tsetses sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the substitute? Find the substitute for it. The only consequence of it is a mentally crippling disease for the rest of your life.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the train of the Russian fur market came Russian diseases, notably smallpox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Since Asian mainland infectious diseases were well established in Indonesia, New Guineans thereby gained long exposure and built up much more resistance to Eurasian germs than did Aboriginal Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While over a dozen major infectious diseases of Old World origins became established in the New World, perhaps not a single major killer reached Europe from the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He has the disease with the talking. The, uh, with the bad words. In France, we say it the Toorettes. I do not know how you say in English.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Hence many germs have had to evolve tricks to let them spread between potential victims, and many of those tricks are what we experience as “symptoms of disease.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In some of them there was a hunger for rank—in Jubal Early it was a disease—but Armistead had grown past the hunger, if he ever had it at all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Indian societies disintegrated from disease and mistreatment, forest invaded savanna in Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Texas hill country. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Severe reducing was thought to be the culprit behind an epidemic of fatal lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, among jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "But the crippling disease, she made that up?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He was ill with some type of lung disease, but it was not diagnosed, as my father had never visited a doctor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained they used it on victims of vitiligo, a disease that causes white spots to appear on the face and body. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He found out he has this disease called multiple sclerosis. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Evidently it’s a disease where you have to go to the bathroom a thousand times a day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After her heart disease was diagnosed, my physician brothers wanted to schedule her for further tests with top heart specialists, but she refused. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Among other mosquitoes, including carriers of other diseases, the pattern is being repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There is already talk of a breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of human disease. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Faster even than the time she flew down the stairs having seen for the first time what the disease had done to her grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate how much I despise the pageant, but it feels like a disease. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Another is that the Indigenous populations were decimated by diseases brought by the Europeans such as smallpox and diphtheria. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe I haven’t cleaned the desks enough at school and have finally caught some disease. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z To gain a foothold against the disease could cost hundreds of millions, they estimated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Um, it’s sick. It’s got a disease. I have the medicine and stuff. For it.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There is an abundance of interesting fact relating to all our major diseases, and more items of information are coming in steadily from all quarters in biology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Those invaders get winnowed by natural selection, and only a few of them succeed in establishing themselves as human diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The lord of suet was already dying from whatever hideous disease he had brought back from Sotho- ryos, it seemed to Tyrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not long after we arrived, a terrible disease called cholera raced through the camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Medical men and even the general public were becoming aware that the human environment was inhabited by an enormous number of microorganisms capable of causing disease, just as today carcinogens pervade our surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, the Yanomamo are relative newcomers to their homeland, many of them moving there only in the seventeenth century as they fled European diseases and cruelty further south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps two-thirds of the people who suffer from this disease die within a year of its onset, and you’ve already survived for a couple of years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Battered by European diseases and slave raiding, many fled to the Orinoco, becoming wandering foragers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But she has heart disease and high blood pressure now and takes medication for both. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Midwives, nurses, dentists, barbers, apothecaries, wandering healers, quack physicians, and next-door neighbors offered opinions on the disease, too. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even the Pennsylvania Hospital barred fever victims, because it feared that the crowded condition of its building would allow the disease to spread wildly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z To perform in the sport he was born for, he had to be very thin, but to survive his disease, he had to maintain habits that made thinness virtually impossible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors of Monterey—and there were enough of them to take care of the ordinary diseases, accidents and neuroses—were running crazy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As my old professor searched for answers, the disease took him over, day by day, week by week. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer to home for Americans, Fort Bragg fever was the name applied to a new leptospiral disease that broke out in the United States in the summer of 1942 and soon disappeared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had, after all, actually dealt with yellow fever firsthand, while Currie had merely studied the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Or would it be the belief that every life was sacred, and that MDR potentially threatened more lives than any other infectious disease? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Bodies set apart from the town cemetery because of the deadly disease that had killed them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Every touchable surface was a disease waiting to happen, every speck of dust an allergen poised to swell your nose and clog your ducts, every toothbrush bristle a bacterial playground. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Many of them had the lung disease— tuberculosis was the demon word—-and they hacked and spat constantly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And New York State today has a most impressive record of containing and suppressing the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I would include a large amount of what is called mental disease, and most varieties of cancer, in this category. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ending all diseases and the common cold with a single song. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I found myself in a strange deserted city—an old city, like London—underpopulated by war or disease. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Genie asked, wondering if maybe he should’ve written down all these disease names. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “That agent’s been fooling around with her. He told you she had a disease so that you’d be scared to bother her. He was protecting her from you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pacific Ocean was a body of water surrounded on all sides by elephantiasis and other dread diseases to which, if he ever displeased Colonel Cathcart by grounding Yossarian, he might suddenly find himself transferred. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had heard that the place had experts who could identify monkey diseases, and he wanted to get a positive identification of the sickness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father had been diagnosed as having Parkinson’s disease several years before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until this medication was discovered, the victims of this disease had had to wear pancake makeup when they went out in public. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The situation with regard to Dutch elm disease is therefore not entirely hopeless provided informed and intelligent measures are taken. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The uglies in her own dorm treated her like a walking disease, and anyone else who recognized her sooner or later asked, “Why aren’t you pretty yet?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z No method had been developed for growing the disease organism in an artificial medium, but a satisfactory substitute was evolved; infected grubs are ground up, dried, and combined with chalk. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He battled the disease in Spain, where he lived, with the aid of an experimental drug that was not—and still is not—available in the United States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He isn’t thinking very well anymore. It’s a kind of disease in the brain that makes you forget.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The air in the cabin was thick with the stink of disease, but the hearth was warm. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I go quiet, thinking of Hilly’s bathroom plan and accusing the maid of stealing and her talk of diseases. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the threat of fire and weather and disease: Already foreign editors were asking who would dare attend the exposition given Chicago’s notorious problems with sewage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Spanish and French narratives cannot be taken at face value, and in any case say nothing substantial about disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Of late, sensible of disease and impending battle, Dr. Trefusis hath convinced Bono to aid him in the concoction of final words. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Even if we could imagine the act of death in isolation, without any preliminary stage of being struck down by disease, we would be fearful of it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But a terrorist attack happens now; death by heart disease is some distant, quiet catastrophe. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There were plenty of sideways glances and people talking about her when they thought she wasn’t watching, but most everyone avoided her like she carried a mortal-age disease. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But the Europeans carried a disease, and they bequeathed it to their jailers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maize lacks digestible niacin, the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, necessary to make proteins and diets with too much maize can lead to protein deficiency and pellagra, a disease caused by lack of niacin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The ones causing the epidemic to grow — the ones who were infecting two and three and four and five others with their disease — were the remaining 168. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Northern Europeans who were sent out to hot tropical lowland areas used to die in droves of diseases such as malaria, to which tropical peoples had evolved some genetic resistance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An initial list of “hereditary diseases” was drawn up, including mental deficiency, schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, blindness, deafness, and serious deformities. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He would plant a disease in my brain that would leave me wearing a strait- jacket in a rubber room for the rest of my life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z These refugees had terrible stories to tell: houses destroyed, people sleeping in the streets, children dying, water running low, disease spreading. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasmine had a blood disease since birth—sickle cell anemia—which can affect almost every part of the body. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Well, they get banana fever. It’s a terrible disease.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z By that, he meant even the most knowledgeable doctors in the country were ignorant of the existence of germs and bacteria, the source of infections and diseases. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Because the disease was crippling, it may have provided Roosevelt with a greater compassion for the underdog; or perhaps it improved his striving for success. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As advances in medicine and disease prevention have increased life expectancy in the United States, the benefits have disproportionately gone to people with education, money, good jobs, and connections. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Third, the fortunate ones of us who do recover develop antibodies that leave us immune against a recurrence of the disease for a long time, possibly for the rest of our life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were so many diseases that it took a truly diseased mind to even think about them as often as he and Hungry Joe did. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But in the countryside the new automobiles were as unreal as short dresses, and those who were just emerging from the invasion of snails and hoof-and-mouth disease simply viewed it as a good year. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You cannot fall ill of this new disease,” said he. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He pays $900 a month for a basic health insurance policy—vital to keep his wife, Vicky, who has a rare brain disease, alive. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Today, no scientist would dream of publishing a person’s name with any of their genetic information, because we know how much can be deduced from DNA, including the risks of developing certain diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She’s like a god—impervious to cold, famine, disease, natural and man-made disasters. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, of the 2,500 kinds of mosquitoes that infest the world, almost 400 of them are capable of transmitting diseases to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Doctors used to think margarine was healthier for you than butter and would not cause heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Thus, tiny devices that can travel along capillaries to enter and repair living tissue; the ability to heal disease, reverse the ravages of age, or make human bodies speedier and stronger than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But isn’t there anything to treat this...this...disease?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Lizzie’s health grew even worse, as if grief were its own disease. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All four of these traits apply to what Americans think of as the familiar acute epidemic diseases of childhood, including measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, and smallpox. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Reichenstein’s disease is now chiefly of historic interest, for new water supplies were provided a quarter of a century ago, from which arsenic was largely eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But for those not yet touched by the disease and certainly for the generations as yet unborn, prevention is the imperative need. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But though in his youth he had received prizes for his ability to deduce square roots from memory, he was unable to solve the mystery of his daughter’s disease. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On the other hand, vaccination rates for other diseases had skyrocketed, so it wasn't all bad news. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Guilt grew too, like a disease, like every disease. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It started with one, but it spread like a disease. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Because his subjects had not gotten full-blown yellow fever, many scientists thought that Finlay had failed to prove the relationship between mosquitoes and the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I’d also read about the lack of funding for research into sickle-cell anemia, a disease that affected blacks almost exclusively. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Doctors in the 1860s did not know as much about diseases and their cures as they do now. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z How lonely it must have been to live twenty-some years with such a disease, to persist without complaint as your body is slowly and inexorably consumed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By 1945, milky spore disease was raging among the beetle populations of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s a disease called Ondine’s Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Dad’s mother, who lived with us for awhile, had her own secret for warding off disease. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were diseases of the head, diseases of the neck, diseases of the chest, diseases of the intestines, diseases of the crotch. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It causes lung cancer and other diseases, and it decreases the endurance of heart and lungs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the space of a year, from 1995 to 1996, the number of children born with the disease increased by 500 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do. I double.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As a result, the three researchers suggested, adult Indians were—and possibly still are—more vulnerable to infectious diseases than adult Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Indonesians, with their long history of exposure to malaria and other tropical diseases shared with New Guineans, have not faced as potent a germ barrier as have Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to do some preliminary tests for diseases. Want to give him a bath in the meantime?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s real old now and has that disease where you forget. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The humans who domesticated animals were the first to fall victim to the newly evolved germs, but those humans then evolved substantial resistance to the new diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As with many autoimmune diseases, it's unknown what causes some people to develop vitiligo, though it is suspected that there can be a genetic factor, and it can be triggered by stress. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In contrast, the crowd diseases, which we discussed earlier, could have arisen only with the buildup of large, dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Europeans may not have known about microbes, but they thoroughly understood infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As in: Hypertension can affect all types of people, but you have a higher risk if someone in your family has had the disease. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z She always pulls me away and says that she’s sure in ten years we’ll find out that it causes horrible diseases. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The spread of the disease and of fear among the citizens had one immediate consequence: people began leaving the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They never elaborated about just what diseases the toilets contained, but they made it plain that the ailments were both contagious and dire. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The rising river could have forced them inland, or disease may have wiped them out, or another Indian tribe could have attacked and killed them all. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I noticed first the absence of parkland trees, the giant elms lost to disease I supposed, and the remaining oaks cleared to make way for a golf course. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Leon figured that Renault was the cause, the carrier of the disease. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Agricultural use of insect diseases, caused by a bacterium highly specific for certain lypes of insects, is already being tried in California, and more extended tests of this method are under way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If I had a million dollars, I’d invest all of my money to cure this disease. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Cholera, a deadly disease, had just reached England for the first time, and there were epidemics of typhus, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to wonder if every disease of man and beast had simply waited for my arrival to invade the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The embryos still have gills. We immunize the fish against the future man’s diseases.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabbits were suddenly dying from a rabbit disease that seemed to eat up their insides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “There are carriers, people who are very expressive, and there are people who are especially susceptible. It’s not that emotional contagion is a disease. But the mechanism is the same.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The more education and income people have, the less likely they are to have and die of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and many types of cancer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morgue they discovered that Hassan did not die of disease or from the collapse in his shop. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Yet their rates of heart disease and obesity are lower than the health-crazy Americans’. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ulcers, glaucoma, gastritis, gangrene, cancer, broken limbs, malnutrition, and a host of infectious diseases—almost everything came through the doors of Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The third king breathed on a basket of wheat. His disease blew away with the chaff. This is why wheat chaff is able to give people tuberculosis.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the old and very young lie sick on the outskirts of the sites where the displaced people gather or die in the camp from disease and hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It might not kill, but it weakened and it recurred and it could lower one’s resistance to other diseases. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Personally, I been dodging that woman like a contagious disease ever since that circus show in class. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He spent the remaining thirteen years of his life curing diseases and battling opponents with his customary stubborn ferocity. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a very bad disease. But your sister’s going to get better. Now that we have the house, she’s happier.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I have very little knowledge about TB, but it seemed to me an extremely sinister disease, the way it went on so invisibly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He argued that without disease, famine, and poverty, the human population would grow too fast. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Europeans routinely lost when they could not take advantage of disease and political fragmentation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Likening communism to a disease, Kennan contended that it would respond only to force, or what he called "containment." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I'm not touching that. I'll get like twelve diseases if I hold it for too long.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Masses seethed along the streets below—the countless poxies on a rampage of mindless destruction, driven beyond insanity by Nergal's diseases. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But we knew the rules, and still brought my disease to their new world. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We’ve seen that Eurasian crowd diseases evolved out of diseases of Eurasian herd animals that became domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are also the grandfathers of the germ theory of disease, and therefore of much of modern medicine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t like the way she said that, as if Tyson were a big disease we needed to get to the hospital, but I followed her down the alley. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations,” says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, “yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, though, the new hybrids are almost always more vulnerable to disease and insects than older varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With his stronger eye he stared deeply into a pumpkin blossom for the source of his garden’s disease. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods—giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he were the carrier of a terrible disease and nobody wanted to become contaminated. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People with similar HLA profiles fall victim to the same diseases in the same way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the terrible itching that gave the disease its name started, Omakayas wrapped their hands with cloth, bit down their fingernails, anything to keep them from scarring themselves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z More alarming still, Rush had recently announced that he had an absolute cure for the disease, something no other doctor had claimed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Efforts to control the fungus disease of the elms have been directed largely toward control of the carrier insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Eat the wrong things, you get sick—everything from a stomachache to cancer to heart disease. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Soon, other scientists connected specific bacteria to diseases such as plague, typhoid fever, and cholera. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In class I had been taught about neurotransmitters and their effect on brain chemistry; I understood that disease is not a choice. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Mom, when I was a baby, did you have a disease or something?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Some of us adults, and even more of our children, pick up infectious diseases from our pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that he didn’t want to do all he could to cure the world of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was still there, despite all the death and disease and misery and sadness and loss everywhere else. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For months, I have not writ, having no paper upon which to write and no matter to record; our days passing in the tedium of routine, the languor of inactivity, and the terrors of disease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If I wore a bit of asafetida in a little bag tied about my neck, I would never catch a disease. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone stays away from me like I have some contagious disease. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In 1939 a control program was launched, directed at speeding up the spread of the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z PIH works closely with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and through their collaborative initiatives, a new generation of doctors and health specialists have chosen careers centered on infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Naturally, we’re disposed to think about diseases just from our own point of view: what can we do to save ourselves and to kill the microbes? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "It just happened, that's the dumb part. It's not like there was some disease, or a terrible accident or anything." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I worried about my brothers catching diseases that we would find no cure for, especially since Mother was always talking about the deadliness of cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She says the word “clubs” as if she really means “diseases.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Ted, this disease is knocking at my spirit. But it will not get my spirit. It’ll get my body. It will not get my spirit.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Both diseases caused much misery and could be fatal. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost everything offered today for the treatment of heart disease is at this level of technology, with the transplanted and artificial hearts as ultimate examples. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The causative relation between pathogenic organisms and many diseases had been established through the brilliant work of Pasteur and Koch. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From what she saw, Tennessee was fire, disease, and violence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We entertain ourselves by trying to figure out which disease they’ve got, and we’ve reached the conclusion that they suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Its bark fascinated Olanna, the way it was discolored and patchy, a light clay alternating with a darker slate, much like the skin of village children with the nlacha skin disease. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Washington was all too familiar with the disease. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Now the elms are stricken with a disease that afflicts them throughout their range, a disease so serious that many experts believe all efforts to save the elms will in the end be futile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The consequences of resistance in terms of malaria and other diseases are indicated by reports from many parts of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those who possess this power, her dad said, could interpret dreams, repel disease or death, inform hunters where to find game, and send a spirit helper to harm their enemies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Likewise, insurance policies with broad coverage which compensates for any mishap are apt to be cheaper in the long run than insurance for a particular disease or a particular trip. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the wind that howled in her ears and that changed the course of her life affected her own young body: she came down with an inner-ear infection combined with a disease called paratyphoid. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I sit at a computer and look up everything I can find about Alzheimer’s disease. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In one important respect the outlook is more encouraging than the situation regarding infectious disease at the turn of the century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Not only did they frighten those who came upon them, but they might very well be spreading the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I also have some unfortunate news. We are in the height of tick season. You kids ever hear of Lyme disease?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Rush was never shy with his opinions, and standing there in the LeMaigres’ parlor, he boldly announced that the disease they now confronted was the dreaded yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z This bacterium actually kills by poisoning rather than by disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After fifty laps, one guy quit, and since quitting is contagious, three other boys caught the disease and walked off the court, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The doctor informs you that you have a dread disease, the average victim of which lives for five years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Six clerks of the Treasury Department also contracted the disease, leaving just one, Joshua Dawson, at his post. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They have lower rates of diet-related illness such as heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z However, there is evidence that leaders were aware of and interested in the use of disease to make conquest easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Other possibilities lie within the field of forest genetics, where experiments offer hope of developing a hybrid elm resistant to Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In their panic, the healthy fled from the sick, carrying the disease with them to neighboring communities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But a study in the early 1960s of seven thousand unvaccinated smallpox cases in southern India found that the disease killed 43 percent of its victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had indeed contracted the eye disease favus on the Giulia. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You could glance at Gus and never know he’d been sick, but I carried my disease with me on the outside, which is part of why I’d become a homebody in the first place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I wished I could tell my mother that I had a chicken disease that made me itch all over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I pray God they may be delivered of the worst of the disease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The People of the First Light could avoid or adapt to European technology but not European disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a policy at the county medical center consigning all black patients to the basement, which meant that women giving birth were sometimes put next to patients with infectious diseases. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In a day or two he was coughing and said he thought it was a relapse of lung disease from war deprivation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I just learned that my mom has a disease called lupus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They were afraid of her disease as if it were fatal, like tuberculosis, but worse, much worse. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The English were also devastated by tropical diseases—malaria and yellow fever—which took thousands of lives. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z No less arresting is Lyme disease, which comes from the bite of a tiny deer tick. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, while she was at Bergen-Belsen, she had the opportunity to talk to Anne, who was dying of hunger, disease, and sadness. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Most infectious diseases have now been brought under a reasonable degree of control and some have been practically eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He came to believe that that one terrible day of reducing may have triggered the onset of the crippling disease. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Following such impulses, a few Spanish—and a few French, Portuguese, and British— deliberately spread disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Confined to wheelchair; disease struck about four years ago. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The heart disease that had limited her flying in her later years finally took her life in 1980. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the time of the junta, and because he couldn’t obtain the necessary medicines, he watched helplessly as the first patient died from the disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With its distinguished reputation, this was where other hospitals in the country sent their most difficult cases, including people dealing with cancer, serious burns, psychiatric conditions, and infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So my yia yia, suffering the first of her imaginary diseases, stood looking down at Bursa, as though she might spot a visible confirmation of her invisible dread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Whatever this disease was, the cause of death was not obvious. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew there was a disease in this room, and yet these monkeys were beautiful, healthy animals, and he had just killed them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the germination, growth, and disease resistance of plants are adapted to precisely those features of climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the following year, another hundred members of the losing tribe died from starvation, cold and disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But even then the disease killed perhaps a third of its victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The remaining settlers were ravaged by disease, starvation, and warfare with the Indians. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z You might get a disease just by standing near this one, and you surely did not want to share a sewing machine with her in home economics. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We fear the enemy shall come to know how many of our number are riddled with disease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The few domesticates that remained to Native Americans were not likely sources of crowd diseases, compared with cows and pigs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Slavin was born a hemophiliac in the 1950s, when the only available treatment involved infusions of clotting factors from donor blood, which wasn’t screened for diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Now Safer is letting her lick his face all over, and I’m thinking that if he doesn’t get a bird disease, he’ll probably get a dog disease. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z While I examine my patients, I teach them Nature’s laws regarding disease. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The final stage of this evolution is represented by the major, long-established epidemic diseases confined to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dying from kakakaka, the disease that turns the body to a small black pitcher, pitches it over, and pours out all its liquid insides. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Glaucoma. It’s a disease that destroys your vision.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And I sat there feeling as if my hair were coated with disease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so Reed was able once again to push aside his doubts and his own strongly held opinions about how humans contracted the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, more American school children die of cancer than from any other disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Garikayi told them that one day a man arrived who had a bad skin disease. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The doctors had examined him, pronounced the rare disease incurable, and told him he had anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to live. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “About diseases. How they spread. Blood research is the frontier.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Although it was the rainy season and everything was green, there was disease in the area, and people were worried about the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Could she travel halfway around the world, braving the very real dangers of pirates, shipwreck, and disease, to face a wild and unknown land? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ground-up cattle brains were put into cattle feed and some of those cows got mad cow disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Anyone suspected of having the disease was shipped off immediately to the Quarantine Hospital. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Within a month the disease had spread into almost every province of Haiti, including Port-au-Prince, as well as the neighboring Dominican Republic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z An illustration which isn’t quite so vanilla: Assume a medical clinic tests blood for a certain disease from which approximately one person in a hundred suffers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because if I ever get a rare disease that causes my butt to break out in fluorescent hives or something totally rando like that, I know Maddie’s the only one who could save me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It expressed fear that she, the daughter, would also contract the disease. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did a lot of Marines get malaria, there was also this disease carried by insects that made your arms and legs swell up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I have a bevy of horrific diseases to choose from, don’t I? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In his homeland there was so much war and destruction, poverty, disease, and starvation—so many problems that had not been solved by governments, or rich people, or big aid organizations. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If I so much as sneezed, she would rattle off a list of infectious diseases that would have me in the grave by nightfall. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z These are the kinds of people who make epidemics of disease tip. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We put him into the bed with Mam so that he’ll be warm though we don’t want him to catch her disease and die. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s an old family disease that keeps coming back, no matter what I do.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She was one of the symptoms of his disease. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z No answer came to him, but he felt the guilt all the same, like a disease in his blood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A small number of blacks who had grown up in either Africa or the West Indies had had the disease as children and survived. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Until the United States cured its “Mississippiitis”—that disease of segregation, violence, and oppression that plagued America like a chronic bout of consumption—the paper declared, it would never merit the position of world leadership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Jesus, Jude. How many diseases can you think you have in one night? And all those freaking obituaries you read—like from every county in California.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z If the disease invaded a large city and a call went out for hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine, it would take months to produce it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Such diseases are especially prevalent in parts of Asia and Africa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Multiply these daily frustrations by a few billion, and you begin to see that the curse of knowledge is a pervasive drag on the strivings of humanity, on a par with corruption, disease, and entropy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These diseases are also shared with, or similar to the diseases of, our closest wild relatives, the African great apes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” Pinkie said, entering the conversation, “Prince Philip’s got the Mongolian Zinch disease.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He won’t bite. He likes me,” I said, ignoring that question about dog disease. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Kim, Chou, and I have had red eye disease for two weeks now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d caught the disease from the Toad and was beginning to go crazy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They have a disease or somebody kicked them in the stomach a lot. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At his doctor’s suggestion, Miele enrolled in a three- month monitored exercise program for heart disease patients, called cardiac rehab, which has been shown to reduce the mortality rate among heart patients by 20 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Ancient foragers also suffered less from infectious diseases. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The small population size of tribelets explains not only why they can’t sustain epidemics introduced from the outside, but also why they never could evolve epidemic diseases of their own to give back to visitors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The economy of the sanitation method is stressed by New York experts in Dutch elm disease control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The men who were sick with the disease spilled their chaos over everything in their path. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not without gloves. It has some sort of disease.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The only outward signs of his disease, though, were the tremors in his hands and an occasional grappling for the right word. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In certain diseases and abnormalities studied by these investigators the number differed from the normal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By year’s end perhaps eighteen thousand had died in the city area and the disease was racing through the countryside in every direction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew that the daisy, a remedy for every ache, pain, and wound of the body, was powerless to cure the disease of his rank soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Hadn’t he come to terms with the fact that their odds of not catching the disease were almost zero? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I had been reading everything I could find online about the country—story after story of poverty, starvation, and disease. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The village, like many in Vietnam, had high rates of polio, a disease that caused muscle weakness, even paralysis. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They think I have a disease from foreign parts because my father used to be in Africa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It takes only two or three bad epidemics of disease to strike, and suddenly the group is gone. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The local coroner held that the death had resulted “from disease, the fatal termination of which was hastened by flogging, labor, and general harsh treatment, imposed by .. . Elam Lynds. ...” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever disease he had was big on his mind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I was ten years old when I first became infected with this terrible disease. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that fishing trip, at the age of seventy-one, Gey learned he had the disease he’d spent his entire life trying to fight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, establishing the Aedes aegypti mosquito as the disease carrier, or vector, did not answer all the questions about yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Finally, these diseases tend to be restricted to humans; the microbes causing them tend not to live in the soil or in other animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She said the word weirdo like it was a terrible disease I didn’t want to catch. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The fact that patients recovered quickly and became immune to further attack helped the new disease die out quickly. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her curiosity was a disease, almost a mania. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z While these new incidences of yellow fever were few and scattered, they demonstrated clearly that the disease had not been completely wiped out. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Their flesh could help prevent pellagra, a sometimes fatal disease that was rampant in the camp, especially in the winter. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The historical importance of animal-derived diseases extends far beyond the collision of the Old and the New Worlds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But in his own there was even a leg of pork which he had bought from his neighbor Ching when he killed his pig that looked as though it were sickening for a disease. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z That link has recently been supplied by investigators at the University of Melbourne and Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne, who reported on 16 cases of mental disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His breath carried the stench of dockside garbage: whiskey and filth, hardtack and disease. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I answered miserably that the disease hath a period of quiescence before it blooms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Controlled sterilization, research into communicable diseases, the perfection of new surgical techniques on the socially unfit—was it any wonder the best medical talents in the country were flocking to South Carolina? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Again, we’re used to considering fever as a “symptom of disease,” as if it developed inevitably without serving any function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their blood and their response to disease are like ours. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Of those women who were infected with AIDS, many had contracted the disease in Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The infectious diseases that visit us as epidemics, rather than as a steady trickle of cases, share several characteristics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It came upon me slowly, like that strange disease that affects those black men whom you see turning slowly from black to albino, their pigment disappearing as under the radiation of some cruel, invisible ray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It cures all classes of disease and keeps off more. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You don’t even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death—” O’Brien silenced him by a movement of the hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In Haiti, TB still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in the catchment area had died from it since 1988. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As Table 11.1 illustrates, others of our familiar infectious diseases can similarly be traced back to diseases of our animal friends. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She is by far the most attractive member of the family, yet she spends most of her time and money disguising herself beneath prosthetic humps and appliquéd skin diseases. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but you know it as “bubble baby disease.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You sound like Education be a fatal disease, Sis-ter,” said my auntie. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z California searches vehicles for vegetables and fruits which might carry pernicious insects and diseases, and regulations of these are enforced with almost religious intensity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a careful discussion of the disease, the physicians bickered and fought. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Suheyla had tried to tell him: The hate was like a disease. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then people in England began dying of a sickness called mad cow disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They announced that they could end all work forever and cure all disease, so of course, the leaders of the world all rushed to sign up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The disease visibly and universally declines,” he wrote to Julia, his confidence returning. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z New programs to treat cancer and other chronic diseases are growing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This where the white lady get the old-timer disease and call the police department ever morning cause a colored woman just walked in her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z These injuries to the genetic material are of a kind that may lead to disease in the individual exposed or they may make their effects felt in future generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At the end of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease except for AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Joe from Paris has made a poison that will seem to be a Congolese disease, a mere African death for Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This belief that the disease was brought in resurfaced wherever the fever struck. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Lucky Strike organized scavenge parties to take care of the dead, burning them or burying them according to their rituals, and making the place safe from disease. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The ensuing partial strangulation frequently triggered systemic, stress-related diseases that were often fatal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Polio is a terrible disease! It left children crippled. Killed them. Salk and his group of scientists pioneered a vaccine to prevent it. He even tested it on himself.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It was smallpox, the most dreaded disease of all. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z |
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