11.   From this flows the reality that, compared to other major killer diseases, less is known about prostate cancer.

12.   Not being a killer disease, like the plague or consumption or cancer or AIDS, it never came to be seen as tragically emblematic of its time.

13.   The problem means from simple ailments like earache and sore throat to pandemics of killer disease, it is becoming ever-harder to treat infectious disease.

14.   Von Eschenbach, a cancer expert and a cancer survivor, vowed to do his utmost to spur research to defeat the killer disease.

15.   What we have here is the sappy yuppification of a medieval killer disease.

16.   Within a few months, the Blumberg team had developed a vaccine for this killer disease.

17.   Outbreaks of easily preventable killer diseases are common in Nigeria, where mismanagement and corruption have destroyed the economy and the health system.

18.   Annan has appealed to wealthy nations to help build a fund to fight AIDS, malaria and other killer diseases.

19.   And four companies are furiously testing liposomal agents in Americans who have everything from breast and lung cancer to killer fungal diseases.

20.   APTV reports on how soaking mosquito nets in insecticide can prevent the killer disease.