epilepsy - A neurological disorder that makes the patient suddenly shake in an uncontrolled spasm or become unconscious., influenza - A very contagious disease caused by a virus, which often apprears in epidemics, and can be extremely dangerous to older people., malaria - An illness that causes fever, shivering, and seating, and can be fatal, which you can get if a mosquito infected with a particular parasite bites you., rubella - An infectious viral disease that causes red spots on the skin, which can cause serious damage to the foetus if a pregnant woman catches it., scurvy - An illness caused by not eating enough foods that contain vitamin C which causes bleeding gums and loss of teeth., AIDS - A disease that destroys the body’s ability to defend itself against infection, caused by the virus HIV., rabies - A viral disease that affects the central nervous system, passed on in the saliva of an infected animal when it bites you., pneumonia - An inflammatory illness of the lung in which the alveolar or air sacs fill with fluid., cancer - A serious illness that is caused when cells in the body increase in an uncontrolled way., goitre - A disease that affects your thyroid gland and makes your neck swollen., diabetes - A condition in which the body cannot produce or use insulin, causing dangerously high levels of sugar in the blood., beriberi - A disease that affects the nerves, caused by a lack of thiamin (vitamin B1). Its symptoms include swelling in the arms and legs and paralysis., tuberculosis - A deadly bacterial disease of the lungs, which is dormant in about a third of the world’s population., measles - A very infectious viral disease that causes red spots to appear on the body and a high temperature., rickets - A softening of the bones in children which is caused mainly by a vitamin D deficiency and a lack of sunlight on the skin., BSE - A disease in cows that can be spread to humans if they eat meat from an infected cow, where it appears in the form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease., leukaemia - A type of cancer in which not enough normal blood cells are produced because too many white blood cells that are not normal are produced instead., haemophilia - A serious genetic disease that prevents the blood from clotting, so that the blood loss from an injury or cut cannot be stopped.,

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