11.   Although most health officials maintain that the disease is spread to humans only through tick bites, Smith says she got it through a needle stick.

12.   Americans would have a completely different attitude about AIDS if the disease were spread in food.

13.   Among other things, Britain plans to make it a crime to possess cattle feed containing animal byproducts, which is said to spread the disease.

14.   And, of course, keep mosquitoes away with bug repellent, and always check your body, especially your scalp, for ticks that can spread disease.

15.   As for the common cup, the battle over whether it spread disease was not so strictly biblical.

16.   Aside from diluting the genetic identity of wild fish, hatchery fish can compete for food and spread disease.

17.   Because the disease is spread by a particularly resilient type of protein, a prion, even incineration is not a viable option for the remains of infected cattle.

18.   Biological weapons go back at least to medieval times, when besieging armies tossed plague-infected corpses over city walls in an effort to spread disease.

19.   A child, in those years, represented a threat to spread the disease.

20.   Additionally, rural historic sites, countryside parks and national forests were declared off-limits in hopes of halting human foot traffic that can spread the disease.