The phrase "acquire illnesses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of becoming infected or developing a disease.
Example: "People can acquire illnesses through various means, such as poor hygiene or exposure to infected individuals."
Alternatives: "contract illnesses" or "develop illnesses".
Example-based learning can not only help students acquire illness scripts, but also foster clinical reasoning by improving data gathering and processing.
Future studies on arenaviruses native to North America should include work to assess whether humans who consume wild rodents or live or work in close association with cricetid rodents in the highlands of Mexico acquire illness from OCEV or other North American Tacaribe serocomplex viruses.
We then applied the commodity-specific percentage of ill persons to the total estimated proportion of domestically acquired illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for each etiology (1 ).
Both hereditary diseases and acquired illnesses, such as cancer, can be targeted.
†Percentage foodborne among domestically acquired illnesses.
Tens of thousands of children die each year in high income countries from trauma, prematurity, heritable disorders, and acquired illnesses.
Foodborne disease is an important public health problem in the United States, with an estimated 9.4 million domestically acquired illnesses and 1351 deaths from known pathogens each year [ 1].
The estimated number of domestically acquired illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for each etiology was obtained from published estimates (1 ) or, when not available, by extrapolating from available data.
In the United States, Scallan et al. (2 ) estimated that 9.4 million (26%) of 36.4 million domestically acquired illnesses caused by known pathogens were transmitted via contaminated food, and in the United Kingdom, Adak et al. (4 ) estimated that 26% of infectious intestinal illnesses were caused by pathogens transmitted via contaminated food.
