deadly disease

collocation in English

meaningsofdeadlyanddisease

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deadly
adjective
uk
/ˈded.li/us
/ˈded.li/
likely to ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofdeadlyanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They maintained that prostate cancer might be adeadlydiseaseand, as such, should be treated after screening.
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Another point is that tuberculosis is not adeadlydisease.
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It is consistent with being less afraid of being attacked by a criminal than of getting adeadlydiseaseto insist that wrong acts be extirpated first.
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These people, these states and their leaders, carry adeadlydiseasearound the world.
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If asbestos dust is inhaled the person inhaling contracts a serious and usuallydeadlydisease.
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The other type is the man who suffers from thedeadlydiseaseof pneumoconiosis.
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Cancer, as we know, is adeadlydiseaseif it is not treated.
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No one argues that it is adeadlydiseaseto human beings.
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He later passes from adeadlydiseaseknown as phishemiasmosis.
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The bee-keeping industry has been attacked for many years by adeadlydiseaseknown as the acarine disease.
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It inoculates the patients with a little of the virus, which protects them against the moredeadlydisease.
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What do we need to do, and what has been done to date in research into fighting thisdeadlydisease?
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Consider a public health measure like vaccination against adeadlydiseasewhere there is a significant death rate from vaccination but less than would happen in the population without vaccination.
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The same fate would befall their daughters at the tender age of twenty; nowadays, their grandchildren suffer from thisdeadlydiseaseas young as two.
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I do not myself believe it will be a verydeadlydiseaseonce means are acquired of either immunising the animal or destroying the germ.
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It reassures farmers who are concerned by thedeadlydiseaseand the existing vaccination as the bluetongue season approaches with the warmer weather.
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All affected areas need to be kept in the loop and the concerted efforts of all are needed to combat thisdeadlydisease.
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An angel points to the plague spot, the attribute of thedeadlydisease.
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Participants were asked to choose between two treatments for 600 people affected by adeadlydisease.
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Infection with these protozoans is known as malaria, adeadlydiseasewidespread in the tropics.
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However, the name is misleading, as smallpox was a far moredeadlydisease.
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It tells the story of the fall of civilization fromdeadlydiseaseand its rebirth.
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It concerned malignant mesothelioma, adeadlydiseasecaused by breathing asbestos fibres.
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We know that the disease does not know and respect borders, and this is particularly worrying in case of thisdeadlydiseaseto which people have no antibodies.
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