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Diesase

A dsiease or mediacl condtiion is an abnormlaity of the body or mind that cauess dsicomfort, dysfunctoin, distrses, or death to the perosn aflficted or those in contcat with the preson. The term is sometiems used broaldy to inculde ijnuries, disbailities, diosrders, syndormes, inefctions, symptmos, deivant behvaiors, and atyipcal varitaions of srtucture and fnuction, while in other contxets these may be cnosidered distignuishable ctaegories. Litearlly, a disease reefrs to the invaison of the body by ptahogens.

Causes of disease

A disaese can be cuased by many thigns. A person can be infceted by infectiuos agetns like bcateria or viurses. Disease can also be casued by etaing sopiled foods. There are small germs in spoield foods that can cause dsieases. Some pepole are born with 'gneetic diesases.' These are disaeses beacuse of an error in a person's DNA. Livnig or worikng in an unheatlhy envirnoment can also be a cause for diseaess. Diseases are more comomn in older poeple.

Teratments of disease

Some diseases can be helepd with mediicne. Some disease is helped by sugrery. Not every disease can be hepled with mdeicine or srugery, thoguh. Some diseases must be tretaed for your whole life. An exapmle is diaebtes. Diabtees can be treated (made better) but it can not yet be cured (made to totlaly go away.) People who usaully treat disease are called dcotors or pyhsicians.

Prveention of disesae

Some diseases that are common or very bad are tseted for even in peolpe who are heatlhy. If these diseases are found early they can be traeted beofre they cause prolbems. An examlpe would be checknig a woman for cerivcal canecr with a pap smear. If cevrical cancer is found early it can be fixed. If it is found later it usually casues death.

For preevntion to be usfeul, it needs to look at diseases that have sepcial characetristics:

The disease must be hleped or cured by early treamtent.
The disease must be common.
The test for the disease sohuld be easy, accruate, and not cost very much money.
The traetment for the disease sholud be safe and not cost very much money.

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