71.   The neuromuscular disease causes rapid loss of control over muscles, and, usually, death within three to five years of diagnosis.

72.   There is no vaccine, and the disease causes the deaths of a million people annually in Africa alone.

73.   Ultimately, the disease can cause paralysis and death.

74.   Unless counteracted with an antitoxin, the disease can cause irreparable damage to the heart and other organs.

75.   Untreated, however, the disease can cause arthritis, numbness, facial paralysis, an irregular heartbeat and death.

76.   When the disease caused several deaths among American children being treated with growth hormone, a ban resulted.

77.   Autoimmune diseases caused when the body starts attacking itself overwhelmingly strike women -- and are often misdiagnosed, medical experts told a U.N. panel.

78.   Both the human and cow diseases cause sponge-like holes in the brain that gradually disable victims until they die.

79.   By blocking water absorption, the disease causes the fruit to be small, hard and commercially worthless.

80.   Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease causes gradual, irreversible damage to the lungs, and encompasses such diseases as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.