Wheat Stem Rust is a devastating wind-born disease affecting cereals that has spread across Africa and is now in the Middle East, and migrating further eastwards.
There are other children born with disease and disability, like cystic fibrosis or juvenile diabetes.
He died before I was born of lung disease due to the mustard gas.
Most children who are born with my disease, toxoplasmosis, have profound side-effects that can include organ failure, blindness, and intellectual disabilities.
All of them in Africa where, as new research shows, the disease was born around 1950 (see article).
Kelly later founded the Hunter's Hope Foundation in honor of his son, Hunter, who was born in 1997 with Krabbe disease.
Dr. HAYES: We're not born with cancer cells, nor are we born, necessarily, with heart disease.
Six month old Seth Petreikis was born with an extremely rare genetic disease called DiGeorge Syndrome.
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One out of every five children born in Zambia dies of a disease that's preventable, treatable and was eradicated from the United States and Europe a half a century ago.
Now, however, a new strain of the Race disease, the soil-born fungus Tropical Race Four, is making its way through the banana fields of the world, leaving devastation in its tracks.
Some stunning numbers: According to the Centers for Disease Control, of all babies born in 2000, one-third will become diabetic sometime in their lives unless they begin eating a lot better and getting a lot more exercise.
The County Durham-born former England and Newcastle manager has fought the disease five times.
The Neuro Foundation says one baby is born each day in the UK with this genetic disease.
But it said evidence revealed the general UK population was not at increased risk of TB, HIV or malaria infection from migrants, but some UK-born ethnic communities did have a higher risk of disease because of their links to countries where the diseases were endemic.
The County Durham-born, former England and Newcastle manager is battling the disease for the fifth time.
Children born with two faulty copies of the gene develop the disease, which destroys the nervous system, and usually die by the age of five.
And foreign-born children whose parents were also born outside of the United States seemed to benefit from additional protection from these conditions: 18% of these children developed allergic disease compared with 33% of foreign-born children whose parents were born in the United States.
When they compared place of birth with allergic-disease prevalence, the scientists found that children born outside of the United States were less likely to develop asthma or allergies compared with those born in the United States: 20% of foreign-born kids developed allergic diseases compared with 34% of the American-born children.
The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
Even a person born with diabetes, for example, can still work with a coach to help manage the disease.
Innate immunity is the defence against infection that babies are born with, as opposed to adaptive immunity which is acquired as people develop antibodies through their exposure to disease-causing agents.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been collecting data only since 2001, the year the Gaston triplets were born.
One of them, born in a rural Mississippi hospital that fall, is now the first case of a child considered cured of the disease.
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