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acquired immune deficiency syndrome: a serious disease that destroys the body’s immune system (=its ability to defend itself against infection) and usually causes death. AIDS is passed from one person to another through body fluids (=liquids), especially blood and semen. People first become HIV-positive and then develop full-blown AIDS

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a serious disease caused by an amoeba that affects your bowels and makes you go to the toilet very frequently and become very weak

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bird flu

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a serious disease in which the blood becomes infected with a type of small worm. It is common in Africa, Asia, and South America.

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a type of flu (=an infectious disease that makes you hot and cold, tired and weak) that affects chickens and some other birds and animals and can also infect humans

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a disease that killed millions of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century. Its medical name is bubonic plague.

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a serious infectious disease that killed millions of people in Europe and Asia in the past but is now fairly rare. It is passed on by the fleas that live on black rats.

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an infectious disease that most children get once, in which the skin is covered with red spots. Chickenpox is a more serious disease in adults.

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a disease passed on during sex that can damage your reproductive system

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a serious disease affecting your stomach and intestines (=the long tube that carries waste out of your body) that often causes death. It is caused by drinking water or eating food infected with bacteria.

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an illness that makes you feel tired and weak all the time. It sometimes follows an infection by a virus.

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a serious disease of the liver, often caused by drinking too much alcohol

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: a serious disease that gradually destroys your brain cells and causes death. Some types may be caused by eating meat from cows that have the disease BSE.

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a sexually transmitted disease, especially gonorrhoea

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an old word for the lung disease ‘tuberculosis’

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the disease cjd

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a disease affecting the lower part of the intestines (=tubes in the stomach that process food and carry waste out of the body)

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a virus that usually causes minor infections but can cause serious infections in people with aids and very young babies

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a serious disease affecting your throat that makes it difficult for you to breathe

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a serious disease that affects your bowels and makes you go to the toilet very frequently and become very weak

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a serious disease that causes you to lose blood from all parts of your body and usually results in death

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a very serious disease affecting your brain that is caused by an infection

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an infectious virus that makes you feel very tired and weak. Epstein-Barr virus is also called EBV.

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a very common infectious disease that lasts a short time and makes you feel hot or cold, weak, and tired

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an infectious disease that causes red spots on the skin. German measles is a minor illness in children and adults, but can cause serious physical damage to babies before they are born. A more technical name for this is rubella.

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a disease affecting your intestine, caused by drinking infected water

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a disease that mainly affects young people and makes them feel very tired and weak

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a serious disease of the eyes that can make you blind

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a disease that affects your thyroid gland and makes your neck swollen

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a disease affecting the sex organs that is passed on during sex

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a painful disease that makes the joints in your toes swell

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a disease suffered by soldiers who fought in the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf. The cause of the disease is not exactly known.

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an infectious disease of the liver that can be very serious

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a disease caused by a virus that can make sore red spots appear on someone’s sex organs or near their mouth

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human immunodeficiency virus: a virus that can cause aids and is usually passed to someone else by having sex

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the disease caused by hookworms

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an infectious disease affecting your skin

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flu

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a serious disease that mainly affects children in Africa and is caused by a lack of protein in the food that they eat

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a serious disease of the lungs that leads to severe pneumonia and is usually spread through air conditioning systems

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a serious disease that affects the skin, nerves, and bones and can cause people’s fingers and toes to fall off

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a disease caused by bacteria that affects your kidneys and liver

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the disease tetanus

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a disease that affects your immune system and your skin or other parts of your body

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a serious disease caused by insects called ticks that can affect your nervous system and heart

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bse

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an infectious disease common in children in which there are red spots all over the body and a high temperature

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glandular fever

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glandular fever

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a disease that mainly affects children in which the neck becomes swollen and painful

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a form of the illness cjd that makes people ill very quickly

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nonspecific urethritis: a disease that is spread by having a sexual relationship with someone who is infected

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a disease that spreads quickly, causing a high fever, lumps on parts of your body, and in the past usually death

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a serious infectious disease that mostly affects children. It destroys muscle and can cause paralysis (=lack of movement in your arms and legs). Polio is a short form of the more technical word poliomyelitis.

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an old word meaning ‘smallpox’

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an old word meaning ‘syphilis’

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a very serious disease that makes an animal or a human feel crazy. Humans get it only if they are bitten by an animal with rabies.

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a disease that mainly affects children in which their bones become soft and bend. It is caused by a lack of vitamin d in the food that they eat or by too little exposure to sunlight.

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a disease that affects the skin, causing red areas in the shape of a ring

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an infectious disease that causes red spots on your skin. Rubella is a minor illness in children and adults, but can cause serious physical damage to babies before they are born. A less technical name for this is German measles.

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a disease in which your skin becomes very itchy (=you want to rub it with your nails)

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a disease mainly affecting children that causes a fever, sore throat, and red spots on their skin

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a disease in which the lymph nodes in a person’s neck swell up

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an infectious disease that affects mainly adults, in which red sore spots cover a particular part of the body

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a blood disease that mainly affects black people

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a serious tropical disease in which you have a fever, lose weight, and are extremely tired

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a serious disease in which your skin becomes covered in spots that can leave permanent marks

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a disease similar to flu that spreads quickly from one person to another and causes problems such as a sore throat and cough, thought to be related to a virus which infects pigs

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a serious disease that you can get by having sex with someone who is already infected with the disease

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tuberculosis: a serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs

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an infectious disease in which you have white spots inside your mouth

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an infectious disease in which a white substance is produced inside a woman’s vagina

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a serious infectious disease affecting your lungs

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a serious disease that you get from eating food or drinking water containing a type of harmful bacteria

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a serious disease that is spread by some small insects

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variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: a form of CJD (=brain disease) that has recently been recognized and that mainly affects younger people

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variant cjd

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venereal disease

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a disease that is spread when people have sex

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a disease affecting animals and sometimes humans, caused by bacteria that are passed through the urine of an infected animal

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an infectious disease of children that causes them to cough and make a loud noise when they breathe

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a tropical disease that produces red marks on your skin and makes your bones hurt