51.   Gonorrhea, a curable bacterial disease, can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility if untreated in women.

52.   Government and Red Cross medical staff began intensive screening of refugees for cholera, a waterborne bacterial disease that spreads in unhygienic conditions, and other contagious illnesses.

53.   In Ecuador, health officials say they fear a scourge of the bacterial disease leptospirosis, which thrives in stagnant water.

54.   Infectious plague is a bacterial disease transmitted by fleas, mostly from infected rats.

55.   It is a bacterial disease, generally transmitted to humans from the bites of fleas infected by dead or dying rodents.

56.   It said the government was scrambling to inoculate people against typhoid, a serious bacterial disease that results in fever, weakness and sometimes death.

57.   It was diagnosed as anthrax and traced to an outbreak of the bacterial disease among cattle.

58.   New Zealand scientists have recently discovered what they believed to be the bacterial disease fire blight in the Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and Adelaide.

59.   New Zealand has long been afflicted by fire blight, a bacterial disease that withers apple and pear trees.

60.   TB is a highly infectious bacterial disease spread by coughing.