Priority was being given to malaria which was having a devastating impact and was a far more pressing issue in the Gambia than HIV AIDS, and to sensitizing communities to malaria prevention.

Even deflated balloons are better than a devastated planet.

Natural disasters have also had a destructive impact of exceptional scale.

The Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating collapse was just around the corner.

Meanwhile, drought alone was having a devastating impact on an additional nine regions.

And, while muddling through is a characteristic response of complex political systems, it is deeply destructive.

We live in a world where the prospect of devastating climate change confronts us all.

January 14, 1907 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich or poor.

The attack has had a noticeable effect on Gaza's economy, with hardly any civilian infrastructure left untouched over 18,000 homes destroyed, as well as over 100 schools, 50 health care centers and 17 hospitals damaged or 20 destroyed.

Obama cannot be faulted for trying.

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African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

For a country whose global leadership depends as much on its soft power as on its military might, that is dynamite.

I visited the site of a demolished house in the Al Zaytoun area of Gaza city and spoke to members of the Ashour family.

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She's suffering from an illness.

Sami was struck down by a mystery illness.

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One species of Rickettsia causes typhus, while another causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

This is an imperative, because the AIDS epidemic is a long term one it will not somehow disappear one fine day.

In that position, he played a prominent role in the reconstruction of Detroit following a devastating fire in 1805.

The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970.

It's a terrible disease. It's fatal.

He is concerned about his father's illness.

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Consider lung cancer.

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It is endemic to Ecuador.

Failure to act quickly and globally will leave our children and grandchildren struggling to adapt to rapidly rising seas and devastating weather.

Pneumonia is a common illness affecting approximately 450 million people a year and occurring in all parts of the world.

Kawasaki disease is predominantly a disease of young children, with 80 of patients younger than five years of age.

The alternative is either a sovereign debt crisis, followed by a destructive spike in borrowing costs, or a growing burden for subsequent generations of taxpayers.

Children The Darwins had ten children two died in infancy, and Annie's death at the age of ten had a devastating effect on her parents.

The degradation of more than a billion hectares of land has had a devastating impact on development in many parts of the world.

That's what spreads HIV.

Cancer is a great enemy of humanity.

Sami is being treated for mental illness.

My plans changed, however, when my father got ill.

And the other thing is that people are simply not as scared of HIV as they were of AIDS, and rightly so.

Because scrapie had never been definitively linked to human disease, they assumed that infected cows were also innocuous.

More moderate critics say that protests will happen during the Cup, and wonder if they will have the same effect on the popularity of President Dilma as before, making way for the right wing parties.

After a devastating fire in 1810, Raahe was rebuilt adhering to new design principles which minimized the risk of fire and enlarged some civic spaces.