Anthrax bacteria generally afflicts animals, especially sheep and cattle.
Early in April, Overbeck was found to have Graves' disease, a condition that is caused by a hyperactive thyroid and that generally afflicts young and middle-age women more than men.
Asthma is among the most prevalent chronic illnesses of childhood, whereas cardiovascular illness generally afflicts older persons.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline that generally afflicts people over the age of 65, although a form of the disease known as familial early-onset AD can affect people as early as in their forties.
Alzheimer's, a degenerative and severely debilitating neurological disorder, was originally described in 1906 by the Bavarian psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, who regarded the condition as a relatively rare form of senile dementia, generally afflicting patients younger than 65.
There is a growing call for additional discovery tools in biomedical research that provide more translative predictability for diseases that generally afflict humans in later life.
While there are overlaps between each subgroup, bile duct hamartomas, ARPKD, and other ciliopathies are mainly manifestations of DPM of the small interlobular bile ducts, whereas medium-sized intrahepatic ducts are generally afflicted in ADPKD and polycystic liver disease.
Often presenting as a silent disease, it generally occurs asymptomatically and, consequently, the afflicted individuals will only be diagnosed after the occurrence of fractures.
Like other cities across Canada, it generally managed to escape the urban blight that afflicted industrial cities in the United States in recent decades.
Syphilis is an extraordinary illness, she says, capable of afflicting the body and mind with such relentless, inventive voracity that it surely deserves more consideration in the analysis of a luminary's life than the footnoted references it generally receives.
