Sentences with phrase «disease names»

But last week it turned to another kind of harm: the insult and stigma inflicted by diseases named for people, places, and animals.
Users can search by disease name or animal to learn about specific diseases and how to prevent them.
Following the guidelines, it adds, could «minimize unnecessary negative impact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.»
Scientists have known for decades that EBV, which causes an infectious disease named mononucleosis or «kissing disease,» is also linked to several autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Given that news of a new pathogen often spreads quickly, «it is important that an appropriate disease name is assigned by those who first report» the disease, WHO's guidance notes.
To that end, new disease names should not include geographic locations; the names of people, occupations, animals, or food; or «terms that incite undue fear» (such as unknown, fatal, and epidemic).
A researcher of autoimmune and celiac diseases named Alessio Fasano M.D. verified my three - legged stool analogy.
Boxer dogs suffer from an inherited heart disease named Boxer Cardiomyopathy (also called Boxer ARVC).
Created by former Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Exotic Species Coordinator Scott Hardin and other experts on zoonosis, the series covers everything from disease names, routes of transmission from animals to humans, symptoms of disease, treatments and more.
Treatment is tailored to your pet and not based on generic disease names or «syndromes.»
EVERY Yankee should have a disease named after him.
A close look at the characteristic plaques of scar tissue that lend the disease its name shows that they typically cluster around blood vessels.
Many scientists agree that disease names can be problematic, but they aren't sure the new rulebook is necessarily an improvement.
Those swollen tissues, called buboes, give this form of the disease its name: bubonic plague.
We all know someone, perhaps a close relative or friend whose health has suffered because of a disease related to the immune system, although in some cases the disease names may be unfamiliar, or the immune system as an underlying cause may not be widely appreciated.
Those swollen tissues, called buboes, give this form of the disease its name.
The disease name, Red Mange, is based on the reddish skin appearance caused by the condition.
Canine lymphoma is a disease name that covers a group of malignancies that occur following the uncontrolled expansion of B or T - cell immunophenotype lymphoid cells.
This is a worm that lives primarily in the right side of the heart, giving the disease its name.
Dog Disease 1: Giardia in Dogs Giardia is a disease named after the parasite that causes it.
Her made up disease name is much funnier than mine... she says she suffers from Decorating Perfectionist-itis Affliction Inflamation Disease Disorder Syndrome, DPAIDDS for short.
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