"And the same can be true,perhaps, for looking at adult-onset diabetes, or cardiovascular disease,or stroke.

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So these are just some pictures to show you what the smallpox lesions look like on the face of a child, and then distributed over the whole body of an adult, to give you some better idea of what kind of a disease this was.

所以这里给你们展示一些图片,这就是小孩脸上的天花伤痕,这是天花遍布成人全身的样子,它能让你们更好的理解,天花是一种什么样的疾病

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One in every 400 children has type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and children are more frequently developing type 2 diabetes, normally an adult disease linked to obesity.

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"Although we believe there are still a few tuberculosis bacteria in his lungs, ongoing antibiotic therapy should kill those, " said Dr Gwen Huitt, director of the hospital's adult infectious disease care unit.

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While some experts insist Syndrome X is a disease and that a genetic flaw is the cause, others argue Syndrome X is merely a precursor to other ailments, including heart disease and adult-onset diabetes.

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