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    ALS (redirect from Lou Gehrigs disease)
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative...
    130 KB (14,011 words) - 18:12, 24 June 2024
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    infectiosum, fifth disease, or slapped cheek syndrome is one of several possible manifestations of infection by parvovirus B19. Fifth disease typically presents...
    33 KB (3,657 words) - 21:17, 13 May 2024
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    relatively low given the huge size of the occupation force." However, there was a resulting large rise in venereal disease among the soldiers, which led MacArthur...
    81 KB (8,861 words) - 02:22, 25 June 2024
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    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China...
    286 KB (32,750 words) - 01:58, 24 June 2024
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...
    93 KB (9,242 words) - 03:53, 24 June 2024
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    Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven...
    33 KB (3,616 words) - 12:49, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Progressive supranuclear palsy
    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a late-onset neurodegenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the...
    42 KB (4,513 words) - 22:31, 9 June 2024
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    until their formal surrender in May 1945. During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation many people from Russia and other parts of the former USSR were settled...
    111 KB (11,239 words) - 01:49, 25 June 2024
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    idiopathic (spontaneous and of unknown cause) and not correlated with another disease. Secondary Raynaud's occurs as a result of some other condition and has...
    32 KB (3,187 words) - 09:50, 2 May 2024
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    The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and...
    114 KB (12,207 words) - 17:40, 23 June 2024
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    occupying the country almost immediately after the outbreak of war; the occupation lasted until Germany's defeat. The decision to occupy Denmark was taken...
    70 KB (8,803 words) - 15:44, 11 June 2024
  • violent motions, odd postures, and other disease-causative agents encountered by workers in more than fifty occupations. Prevention measures include avoidance...
    14 KB (1,545 words) - 17:01, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation...
    158 KB (17,098 words) - 06:47, 25 June 2024
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    Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease) is a disease involving abnormal collections of inflammatory cells that form lumps known as granulomata. The disease usually begins...
    118 KB (12,901 words) - 08:01, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Infectious diseases (medical specialty)
    Infectious diseases (ID), also known as infectiology, is a medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of infections. An infectious diseases specialist's...
    15 KB (1,517 words) - 00:15, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Russian occupation of Crimea
    of it from Ukraine, triggering the Russo-Ukrainian War. This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February...
    90 KB (8,967 words) - 01:55, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese occupation of Malaya
    surrender at Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese remained in occupation until their surrender to the Allies in 1945. The first Japanese garrison...
    66 KB (7,834 words) - 17:06, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for German occupation of the Channel Islands
    The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945...
    111 KB (13,499 words) - 02:50, 1 June 2024
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    amid controversy. Itai-itai disease is formally recognized as a public hazard disease. Bonin Islands under American occupation revert to Japanese control...
    28 KB (3,681 words) - 15:07, 3 June 2024
  • the huge increase in venereal diseases among the soldiers. Assessments of the incidence of rape by American occupation personnel differ. John W. Dower...
    32 KB (4,226 words) - 01:56, 3 June 2024
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