If it's caused by a bacterial infection, it can usually be treated successfully.
In part, it's still the hangover from last summer's storms, but it's also caused by the process of changing over to gasoline that is less polluting in the warm weather, and that procedure is more disruptive this year because distributors are switching from the old chemical called NTBE, which has been found to pollute ground water, to ethanol.
Some scientists think it's caused by an infectious agent, such as a virus.
It's caused by the immune system making antibodies to the killed viruses in the vaccine that help a person fight off the flu.
It's a disease caused by a parasite that migrates from host to host via mosquito.
To its credit, the company almost certainly helped itself more than it hurt itself with last week's BB10 launch event, although it remains to be seen if it's enough to make up for the damage caused by the delays leading up to it.
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If someone got sick after the shot, it's because of a coincidental illness caused by the scores of other non-influenza viruses that can cause similar upper respiratory symptoms.
That is good enough to see shifts caused if a star's companion is another star, but it cannot detect the tiny wobbles caused by orbiting planets.
It seems that Mr German's problems were caused by anti-coalition Labourites leaking reports criticising his behaviour.
They believe it may be caused by the body's reaction to stress which effectively leads to the immune system becoming overloaded.
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It's design is intended to minimize problems caused by loss of sight or hearing or reduced mobility with gadgets such as telephones with extra-large easy-to-read numbers, voice-activated appliances, locks operated by fingerprint scanners and talking kitchen scales.
It's not yet clear if the problem was caused by the storm, she said.
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But he calls the surgery, if it's only for pronunciation, misguided, and caused by the hyper-competitive drive in Korea.
Because no single cause has been identified, it's likely that Meniere's disease is caused by a combination of factors.
The pylon's collapse was caused by stress exerted on it by fans who had climbed the ageing structure.
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In addition, it's easy to confuse seasonal flu for an illness caused by a number of other pathogens, including rhinovirus.
Mr Trimble said it was too early to tell what had caused the outbreak in a direct reference to a suggestion from Mr Campbell's predecessor as regional development minister that it had been caused by a human rather than an animal.
It's likely the rough road was at least in part caused by the duo groping for a new approach to its music.
"Given the widespread controversy caused by the commission's approach, it is important that it should be tested at law, " says Mr Lyscom.
Ronnie Wallwork's shot then caused further consternation for Fulham as it was parried by Van der Sar and Earnshaw was only just unable to convert.
While it's impossible to say that any particular event was "caused by global warming, " says Shepherd, climate change loads the deck, making extreme events such as last year's Superstorm Sandy more likely.
Litigious Unix vendor SCO Group , which became one of the most hated names in tech after it sued various Linux customers, announced this week that it's seen a sharp decline in income, caused in part by shrinking demand for its products and millions of dollars in legal bills.
It's not just the value of the lead but the damage caused by its removal that concerns us.
However, it is unclear which of these were caused by the group's foes and which by its own bombs.
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Kepler flags exoplanet candidates via the transit method, which looks for dips in a star's brightness caused by an object crossing in front of it.
Given how much cancer already exists in the world, it would be very difficult to prove that anyone's cancer was caused by the incident at Fukushima Daiichi.
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It is also suspected that brain cell death in Parkinson's patients is caused by over-activity of another brain chemical called glutamate.
But after physicians noticed that patients treated with Botox had fewer facial lines, an increasing number of doctors since the mid-1990s have used it to reduce forehead creases and crow's feet wrinkles, which are caused by muscle contractions right under the skin.
But after patients who were treated with Botox showed a decrease in facial lines, an increasing number of physicians since the mid-1990s have used it to reduce forehead creases and crow's feet wrinkles, which are caused by muscle contractions directly under the skin.
Though commonly known as "stomach flu, " it is not caused by the influenza virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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