' It is a peculiarly British disease which we aim to eradicate.
Margaret Thatcher's conviction, her resolve, her iron self-belief led many to see her as Britain's post-war saviour - the woman who cured the so-called "British disease", tamed trade unions and vanquished the Argentine Junta in the South Atlantic.
"Thatcher's economic policy cured the specific British disease of vulnerability to bouts of high inflation and a Luddite trade-union movement, " said Howard Davies, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of England and a head of the London School of Economics.
Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.
Dutch Elm disease changed the British landscape in the 1970s by killing large numbers of elm trees.
This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
And in the past week, two groups of geneticists, one at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the other at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses isolated from patients in Toronto and Asia.
He was the minister whoin 1996 informed the British public of a "possible link" between the cattle disease and vCJD.
Writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, which is published by the British Medical Journal, the scientists said their findings were significant.
Rana who was suffering from some unknown disease, the Rana ruler had a good rapport with British Monarchs, so he requested the British govt. to send a british physician to cure him.
Mr Scudamore is now charged with controlling a disease which seems to be spreading out of control across the British countryside.
And just a few days later, bluetongue, a disease of ruminants that is spread by midges, made its first British appearance.
That debate is reckoned to have been what one British official called a "turning point" in getting international action on the disease.
Australia barred British beef and by-products in 1996 as concerns mounted that mad cow disease could be linked to the fatal human condition, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
Belinda Linden, a nurse advisor for the British Heart Foundation, said that more research was needed into possible genetic causes of heart disease.
The European Union imposed a worldwide embargo on British beef exports in 1996 following evidence that infected meat caused a fatal brain-wasting disease in humans.
John Salva, a spokesman for British aid charity World Vision, said the centres had become severely overcrowded, with signs of disease beginning to appear.
After the meeting, Hueston was headed for England, where he serves on the British committee of scientists that found there may be a link between that country's bovine disease and a rare but fatal human equivalent called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, or CJD.
Dozens of countries have banned the import of British beef, but Europeans have begun to avoid any beef, as the "mad cow" disease panic spreads.
CNN: France supports slaughter of British cattle if necessary
The Canadians are so concerned about foot-and-mouth that they recently turned back a British military ship over fears that mud on the wheels of vehicles on board could be harbouring the disease.
In April, for example, according to a report in the British medical journal The Lancet, a French man who had traveled to Dubai fell ill with the disease in France, although it wasn't diagnosed immediately.
British scientists have recently revealed a new karyomapping test that could become a universal way to screen for potential disease in embryos.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
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