31.   Bioinformatics, which requires massive number crunching, is the use of computerized databases to help scientists decipher genetic information needed to combat disease and prolong life.

32.   CDC officials said nasal swabs would be taken, and antibiotics provided to combat the disease.

33.   Cystar Inc., which develops drugs to combat diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, has acquired Proteine Performance of France, and Quantum Biotechnologies of Canada.

34.   Drugmakers combat disease by focusing on so-called targets, chemicals in the body that trigger illness.

35.   Efforts to combat the disease have been hampered by the fact that little is known about how it is transmitted to humans.

36.   Efforts to combat the disease have been hampered because medical teams have difficulty crossing from one part of the province to the other.

37.   El Salvador declared a state of emergency this week to combat the diseases.

38.   Government health workers are combatting the disease with an immunization campaign and house-to-house checks in the worst-hit areas.

39.   Government officials also say if they are to combat the disease effectively then they need the research data that mandatory disclosure will give them.

40.   He has a powerful strain of TB that is resistant to drugs normally used to combat the disease.