And then there's the root cause of many maladies: money.
As a new mother herself, she confesses to feeling overwhelmed by the threat of toxins, from phthalates to mercury to B.P.A., and says that "people like me" tend to view toxins, instead of germs, as "the root cause of most maladies".
In reality that ill-starred acquisition represents a symptom rather than a root cause of the malady afflicting Liverpool.
The color of your nasal secretions says nothing about the cause of your malady, Dr. Schaffner said.
Citrus exocortis viroid (Pospiviroid), Hop stunt viroid (Hostuviroid), and Citrus bark cracking viroid (Cocadviroid) cause a variety of maladies in agriculturally significant crops.
In short, simply because we are the cause of much environmental maladies, we also have the responsibility of helping nature bounce back.
Still, Lynn Goldman, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University and chair of yet another IOM panel on Gulf War illness, says that it may be too early to rule out any specific cause of this mysterious malady.
The causes of the malady are in the complex and restrictive regulations that the ministries of finance and post and telecommunications have imposed to control and coddle these sectors.
The ancient Greeks were the first to describe infant colic, a condition of inconsolable crying that may afflict as many as 28% of U.S. infants, yet the root causes of this malady remain a mystery.
Many, both inside and outside of Iran, assert that the major cause of Iran's economic maladies is the cascade of primary and secondary sanctions that the "allies" have imposed.
