1.   Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area, where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees, into Ashanti.

2.   When disease destroyed the crop, famine followed.

3.   Because her disease has destroyed her immune system, she rarely leaves the house, for fear of catching a cold.

4.   According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, the disease destroys muscles, fat and skin tissue.

5.   But in the last year, scientists have made several key discoveries about how the disease destroys the brain.

6.   Fast-moving and usually hard or impossible to cure, these exotic diseases have destroyed countless trees in forests, cities and suburbs.

7.   In many ways our pain was worse than hers, particularly near the end when the disease had destroyed her powers of recognition and reasoning.

8.   Mad cow disease may destroy the British beef industry, topple the government of John Major and slow the push toward European cooperation.

9.   Over the next three years, the disease destroyed his liver and he was placed on a waiting list for the transplant that could save his life.

10.   The disease destroys motivation and can cause depression and personality changes, and eventually is fatal.