Watch: An episode of The Cartoon Lounge, with Bob Mankoff, in which he discusses a few illness-themed cartoons.
There are few illnesses as terrifying in the public consciousness as cancer.
The U.S. has responded with astonishing speed, considering there are still few illnesses and just one hospitalization.
Once again, there were a few illnesses in the paddock as people struggled to work in the humid conditions or ate food they shouldn't.
Few illnesses today can inspire the deep sense of awe that once attended leprosy and plague: so it is harder to inspire saintliness, kissing the boils of the sick.
Earlier this year, the foreign minister, Witold Waszczykowski, told Bild newspaper: "We only want to cure our country of a few illnesses... a new mixture of cultures and races, a world made up of cyclists and vegetarians, who only use renewable energy and who battle all signs of religion".
In Minnesota, for example, raw milk is illegal, so there are no regulations, while in California, he said, there have been very few illnesses.
Conversely, a few illnesses (mainly chronic lifelong conditions such as heart diseases, chronic joint pain, tumours and cancer, hypertension and diabetes) were reported more frequently among household members in the richest quintile.
For the few illnesses for which data were available from both systems, ELSTAT data were preferred.
Unweighted outbreak data may be biased toward seafood outbreaks caused by marine biotoxins (e.g., scombroid) that are frequently reported but cause relatively few illnesses.
On the other hand, fewer illness episodes in a specified period of time had a positive effect on drop-out of the scheme [ 27, 31].
