1.   When measured against the suffering of people infected with a lethal disease, this point sounds abstract, even callous.

2.   Anthrax, a lethal disease that can be contracted from farm animals or soil, is one of several agents that could be used as a biological weapon.

3.   But the situation can be different when a drug is not urgently needed for patients with an otherwise lethal disease.

4.   Doctors and nurses are in the front line of fire, and they carry the lethal disease home to their families.

5.   Germ warfare raises the specter of mass death by a lethal disease.

6.   If both parents carried the same recessive gene and they both passed it on to a child, that would produce a lethal disease.

7.   In his quest Jamie joins a growing number of others who, with rapidly lethal diseases threatening a family member, have launched ambitious efforts to speed up research.

8.   It is a lethal disease with no cure, and a disease that is relatively simple to prevent.

9.   So far, four people have died from inhalation anthrax, and six others have contracted the potentially lethal disease.

10.   The confusion follows years of debate about widespread screening to identify individuals who carry the gene for CF, which is the most common lethal inherited disease among Caucasians.