0 (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident -- 病，疾病
a contagious/infectious disease 傳染病
They reported a sudden outbreak of the disease in the south of the country. 他們報告說該國南部地區突然爆發了這種疾病。
The first symptom of the disease is a very high temperature. 這種病的最初症狀是高燒。
She has caught/contracted (= begun to have) a lung disease/disease of the lungs. 她患上了肺病。
Starvation and disease have killed thousands of refugees. 饑餓和疾病奪去了數千名難民的生命。
The real disease affecting the country is inflation. 影響該國的真正惡疾是通貨膨脹。
Regular exercise reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
The children were vaccinated against the major childhood diseases.
The disease is spread by the contamination of food and water by faeces.
These changes are subtle and intermittent at first and become more permanent and obvious as the disease progresses.
A more rigorous analysis of the epidemiological impact of vaccination for meningococcal disease is essential for proper health economic estimates.
Thus, even if we were measuring the correct symptoms, we could expect that our purely categorical disease would be hidden within a continuous symptom distribution.
