1.   Although potentially fatal if left untreated, babesiosis is curable with treatment of antiparasitic drugs, which usually rid the body of the parasite within a month.

2.   A healthy immune system easily battles the parasite and rids the body of it.

3.   Aficionadoes say the high colonic rids the body of toxins.

4.   Feeding her pain killers, hospital personnel began the task of ridding her body of dead skin.

5.   Even when it succeeds in ridding the body of virus, the drug frequently fails to produce a long-term response.

6.   GST neutralizes carcinogens such as benzene, preventing them damaging DNA and allowing the body to get rid of the byproducts.

7.   He has been told that the operation will rid his body of the disease and he is facing the procedure with neither fear nor angst.

8.   He was spitting saliva before getting on the scale in an attempt to rid his body of the last micro-ounce of weight.

9.   Her body is now rid of the affliction.

10.   In the case of HIV, one strategy is to find new drugs to rid the body of the last cell of the reservoir.