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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a disease affecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific disease and its impact on individuals or populations.
Example: "Diabetes is a disease affecting millions of people worldwide, leading to various health complications."
Alternatives: "an illness impacting" or "a condition influencing".
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So a disease affecting the species could have a devastating effect on the entire countryside.
Amphibian chytridiomycosis, a disease affecting amphibians, especially frogs, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Public health budgets were slashed and there was little sympathy or support to fight a disease affecting gay men.
European scientists denied biological samples to an Israeli researcher, although he was working on a cure for a disease affecting Palestinian children.
3. Explain to students that they will work in groups to research a disease affecting an animal species, and create a poster that summarizes their findings.
WDR73 is another example of a gene involved in a disease affecting both the kidney glomerulus and the CNS.
A Baylor pathologist, Dr. Elizabeth C. Burton, became suspicious about the deaths when she noticed that two people who received organs from the same donor had died of a disease affecting the nervous system.
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a disease affecting women and causing cystic lung lesions, and, in some instances, leading to respiratory failure and death, appears to be exacerbated by estrogens.
The methodology is applied to scrapie, a disease affecting small ruminants and characterized in sheep by a strong genetic susceptibility defining different risk groups.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease affecting 415 million people globally and Virta, a Silicon Valley-based health startup, believes it has something unique to reverse it – remote monitoring of everything you eat.
I once heard an author describe the "crisis" of disengagement among employees in our workforce as "a disease affecting the central nervous system of our economy". And he's right.
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