1.   Bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease but it can be very serious and requires urgent treatment with antibiotics.

2.   Cell adhesion and disease adhesion molecule deficiency A number of rare diseases result from defects in adhesion molecules.

3.   His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always, but always, proved fatal.

4.   Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.

5.   She suffers from a rare disease of the nervous system.

6.   She fueled her hypochondria by reading articles about rare diseases.

7.   He suffers from a rare genetic disease.

8.   As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.

9.   Analysts say the regulatory agency never before has been faced with two applications submitted within weeks of each other for nearly identical drugs to treat the same rare disease.

10.   And if a test should disclose that a patient has a rare genetic disease, that only raises more questions about where to find information, treatment and support.