I'll start with the second ailment first – I know I should change my job, challenge myself more, work in a field I really enjoy, but the trouble is, my current job pays really well, and I'm worried about the uncertainty of the future.
They might be guilty of spending more money on finding cures for first-world ailments such as cancer and heart disease, or on lifestyle drugs such as Viagra, but the truth is that even the experts did not put Ebola high on their list of priorities until this latest outbreak, which has killed more than 3,800 people so far.
At boarding school he endured so much physical abuse that it brought on acute appendicitis, the first of many ailments to plague him through life.
"People say just rest your voice and don't talk, but that doesn't do anything," said Buck, who first revealed his ailment to The St . Louis Post-Dispatch
When The New York Times first mentioned the ailment, on April 5, 1858, it followed Dr. Parkinson's example, calling it "chronic shaking palsy" in a roundup of news from Long Island.
Such barrier techniques are all that is available because there is no vaccine against SARS; scientists cannot make a vaccine without first identifying the ailment's cause and then only if it is an infectious agent.
Yet more than a third of those ailments, typically characterized by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, are food poisoning, contracted through something they ate or drank that contained noxious bacteria, viruses, parasites, metals or toxins.
The literary critic Harold Bloom described her as "a kind of anthology of nineteenth-century nervous ailments".
For decades, he pointed out, digital technology has been one of Estonia's first recourses for public ailments.
I had blood drawn for the routine tests for the first four of those ailments, but this young woman appeared quite healthy, and I doubted that the tests would turn up anything.
