The phrase minor disease is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any disease that is not serious or life-threatening. For example, "The doctor diagnosed me with a minor disease, but he prescribed some medication for it."
Mostly, it seems to be an identifiable, not agreeable but relatively minor disease (although we know it may change its nature).
"We're missing people who have real disease, not just people with minor disease," said Dr. Byron Thomashow, director of the Center for Chest Disease at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital.
Examples of this situation include the development of oat varieties with Victoria parentage, which, although highly resistant to rusts (Puccinia graminis avenae and P. coronata avenae) and smuts (Ustilago avenae, U. kolleri), proved very susceptible to Helminthosporium blight (H. victoriae), formerly a minor disease of grasses.
Unlike smallpox, cowpox is a minor disease in humans, akin to catching a cold.
I am not talking about getting 10percentt richer or curing a minor disease, but I want people to think big.
For decision-makers, FMD is a minor disease due to the low productivity of pastoral herds as compared to commercial or semi-commercial dairy units.
They die of minor diseases against which other French people — people who go to school — are inoculated.
Without these antibodies rather minor diseases can weaken a lamb, make it sick or let it die, even later on and not just immediately after birth.
The bill allows states to waive rules on minimum benefit standards and rules that prohibit insurance companies from charging higher prices to customers with a history of serious illness — or even minor diseases.
Originally published in 1988 and edited by Cornell plant pathologist Roger Pearson, the first edition of the Compendium not only featured photos of major and minor diseases, but also photos of nutritional deficiencies, insect injury that cause disease-like symptoms, and herbicide/fungicide injury.
For deadly diseases that spread easily, prevention seems more called for than for minor diseases which enable individuals to function close to normally.
