The phrase "ailment spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the transmission or increase of a disease or health condition.
Example: "The researchers are studying the ailment spread in the population to understand how to control outbreaks."
Alternatives: "disease transmission" or "illness propagation".
When I speak with public health workers at CDC, I speak with people working to impact health structures around the world – systems which determine who is most at risk for developing various ailments and how these ailments spread.
The Red Cross has said that 450 people have died from an outbreak of Rift Valley fever, and that the ailment was spreading.
What set off alarms at the W.H.O. and other health agencies was the initial explosive nature of the outbreaks among health care workers; its ability to cause death quickly; and the apparent rapidity with which the ailment was spreading.
A similarity between now and then, he said, is that during both periods, people got "anxiety about things that were scientifically unrealistic," such as "completely ridiculous" rumors about how the ailments are spread.
As Mr. Azzar watched cockroaches crawl over his wife and three children asleep on the dirt floor of a tent they share with three other families, he lamented the lack of food and medicine to treat the diarrhea, measles, eye infections, flu and other ailments that spread quickly here.
These sorts of ailments are spread by parasites, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that originate not from pigeons, rats, and other varmint scum, but from within the warm bodies of our beloved household pets.
Some biologists suspect that the ailment could have spread from the saltwater salmon farms.
In addition, refuge officials said they were a bit surprised that the fatal ailment had not spread to other geese, including Canada geese and snow geese, which are both common in the refuge.
Samples of the coronavirus used to generate the gene maps came from patients with SARS, and health officials say a new type of coronavirus remains the leading suspect of the respiratory ailment that has spread around the world.
Jed Beitler, head of Sudler & Hennessey, the health-care arm of Young & Rubicam, says that growth in over-the-counter medicine has helped to teach people to diagnose and treat their ailments on their own.The spread of HIV had a role too, by diminishing the reverence for doctors.
