31.   Consider what has happened with bacterial meningitis, a deadly disease that infects the fluid around the brain and afflicts mainly children.

32.   Deadly diseases lurk.

33.   Doctors and nurses are perplexed by signs that suggest more than one deadly disease may be striking the population.

34.   Experts not associated with the commercial development of such factors said it was entirely unclear if these neurotrophic factors would lead to new treatments for these deadly diseases.

35.   Even people who are prejudiced against AIDS victims will see the deadly disease in a new way.

36.   For years, scientists have been studying pigs for use in human transplants because pigs are biologically similar to humans and carry far fewer deadly diseases than primates.

37.   Four years ago, a new class of anti-AIDS drugs brought hope that the deadly disease could become a chronic, manageable condition such as diabetes.

38.   Gebbie had disappointed AIDS activists for not focusing more attention on the deadly disease.

39.   He had been feeling fine when he was told that he had a potentially deadly disease.

40.   He believed it could be a breakthrough drug, one that mounted an entirely new type of attack on the deadly disease.