1.   If anybody, anybody, could have defeated the kind of cancer that was destroying her lungs and attacking her brain, it was going to be Perrot.

2.   It appeared she was suffering from distemper, or a similar virus that attacks the brain.

3.   It is fatal and leaves patients with deficient motor skills, attacking the brain, liver and spleen, eventually causing dementia and seizures.

4.   People with cancer sometimes suffer from brain and nerve disorders caused when their immune system erroneously attacks the brain while attempting to combat the cancer.

5.   According to a ministry report last month, the disease, which attacks the brain, is not transmitted by eating pork.

6.   According to doctors, the disease, which attacks the brain, is not transmitted by eating pork and cannot be transmitted by infected people.

7.   Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, attacks the brain, killing cells and creating gaps in tissue.

8.   Japanese encephalitis, which attacks the brain and causes high fever, vomiting and coma, is transmitted from pigs to humans by the Culex mosquito.

9.   No nationwide statistics on the death toll from the disease, which attacks the brain, are available.

10.   Separately, a hospital said Saturday that it has found evidence that the disease was attacking the brains of victims.