"source of disease" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the origin or cause of a disease. Example: Poor sanitation and contaminated water sources are often the main sources of disease outbreaks in developing countries.
THE BOTTOM LINE -- Toilet seats are not a major source of disease.
Fresh produce, overseen by the Food and Drug Administration, is increasingly seen as a potential source of disease.
Stool was then widely assumed to be mainly a source of disease; there was little empirical support for the notion that bowel bacteria were important for health.
In theory the parasite resistance gene would spread rapidly through the wild population of mosquitoes and suppress the source of disease.
Neither merits bracketing with philosophy, any more than the study of demon possession as a source of disease is bracketable with medicine.
Looking way up north in the Arctic – where there are far fewer people, less travel and trade, and fewer infectious diseases – the signal that climate change is a source of disease outbreaks is clear.
As fungi are often ignored as a source of disease, it is time to add routine molecular testing of fungal pathogens to quality control measures for pharmaceuticals so we can end unnecessary illnesses.
"Once the primary school children have been done [given the new booster], if the disease goes away we can leave off doing anything further, but if pertussis remains a source of disease and death in young children, we have to see what else we can do".
Urine as an important source of disease biomarkers has been well established and is extensively used in diagnostic medicine [78].
It was therefore of no use in protecting infected adults who would become an infectious source of disease.
