It is little wonder that hunters discount warnings and "distrust the government" when an expert on a malady affecting wild deer and elk uses language like "tired, cold, hungry and drunk" to describe hunters ("Biologists Say Hunters Should Beware of Brain Disease," Oct. 31).
Furthermore, Navarro and Ross misdiagnose the malady affecting our infrastructure investment.
And perhaps that is, at least, part of the reason that the malady affecting white America is fear.
The first signs of a strange malady affecting young, previously healthy gay men began to appear in 1981.
By growing a moustache or a beard in November -- see, I can pronounce it -- I'm letting the world know I'm fighting prostate cancer, testicular cancer and other maladies affecting us dudes.
While millions of Americans suffer from illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancers of the breast and prostate, these maladies affect certain population groups more than others, for a host of complex reasons suspected but not confirmed by hard scientific data.
Narcolepsy, a mysterious malady that affects roughly one in 3000 people in Europe, most often appears in childhood or adolescence.
Fluorosis is a slow, progressive, crippling malady, which affects every organ, tissue and cell in the body and results in health complaints along overlapping manifestations with several other diseases.
What it might be: You may be a victim of carpal tunnel syndrome, the infamous office malady that affects the wrist nerves of those who spend more than 20 hours a week working on spreadsheets or other projects that involve the mouse.
And for decades, we have been told (by the medical establishment, by pharmaceutical companies, and, sadly, by the press) that our knowledge of genetics will soon help us solve nearly every malady, whether it affects humans, other animals, or plants.
