Until recently, the guiding principle in medicine has been Aristotelian: an understanding of the disease comes first, before experimentation.
Foot-and-mouth disease comes from a virus that grows inside the stomachs and intestines of livestock.
The earliest account of a denguelike disease comes from the Jin dynasty (265 420 ce) in China.
The fictional Alfred Lambert in Jonathan Franzen's novel "The Corrections," who suffers from dementia associated with Parkinson's disease, comes across much more vividly than the "real" James Nichols.
Now that we understand that disease comes from pathogens and parasites, it makes sense only as long as there are no real plagues.
While Alzheimer's disease comes to occupy the agonizing center of the novel, the word "Alzheimer's" doesn't appear until halfway through the book's six hundred and twenty pages.
"This disease comes totally out of left field," said Dr. Vinay Nadkarni, the chairman of the emergency cardiovascular committee of the American Heart Association.
Some researchers have suspected that the re-emergence of the disease comes because the bacteria remain hidden in the body and emerge later.
She has been feeding her children extra vitamin C and has stocked up on powdered milk and canned vegetables in case the disease comes to the East Coast.
It matches the data from the World Health Organisation showing the greatest burden of drug-related disease comes from alcohol and tobacco.
