Sentence examples for disease picking from inspiring English sources

Mosquitoes act as a vector for the disease, picking up the virus from infected birds and transmitting it to other birds, and to humans, that they bite.

Patients have often been conked in the head by luggage, are suffering a disease picked up abroad, or have gone into labor at customs.

While it may sound like a nasty disease picked up from a one-night-stand after playing Fantasy Date, Creebies is a virtual pet game for the N-Gage platform.

"It was shortly afterwards -- I think it was the second day -- I said to my mom, 'This disease picked the wrong guy.' If anybody can fight this thing and discover a cure, it's me.

I'm attracted to it; that gaydar with which so many of us are intimately familiar makes me able to (despite some hearing loss due to Lyme disease) pick out one gay man among a crowd of people.

Rarely is the disease picked up by chance in an asymptomatic patient.

Most diseases pick off young children and the elderly.

Hospital-acquired infections, as diseases picked up this way are called, are especially resistant to antibiotics because the organisms that cause them have lived for years in hospitals, where they have evolved to outsmart one antibiotic after another.

The wasters suffer from skin rashes and other diseases picked up from their hazardous work; midway through the book, one girl dies of hepatitis possibly contracted from a contaminated needle.

The program was so successful that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases picked it up--but budget woes have left it a mere shell of a program.

Nearly 2 million of these people die every year from diseases picked up from the water.