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It went on to become the basis of a devastating skit on Saturday Night Live.

One example of a devastating mitochondrial disorder is MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like episodes).

E. amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight, a devastating necrotic disease affecting apple, pear, and other rosaceous plants.

And because of that virus, infected animals only infected animals—have abnormalities that mimic a devastating behavioral disorder of humans.

Mycobacterium ulcerans (M. ulcerans) causes a devastating necrotising infection of skin tissue leading to progressive ulceration.

A devastating side effect of some common cancer treatments is cardiotoxicity-principally heart failure.

tritici (Ggt), causes a devastating root disease of wheat called take-all.

Nodding syndrome is a devastating neurological disorder of uncertain aetiology affecting children in Africa.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease of the motor neurons with largely unknown etiology.

Ash dieback is a devastating fungal disease of ash trees that has swept across Europe and recently reached the UK.

Malaria is a devastating infectious disease caused by parasites of the Plasmodium species.