Disease

"If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book... every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed" (Deuteronomy 28:58, 61).

God did not intend for humanity to suffer with diseases and sickness, but allowed it as a result of mankind's choices. Learn more about why disease is here and how it will be stopped, once and for all.

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In Brief...Wolrd News Review Heart Disease Still a Big Killer

"Heart disease is the nation's number one cause of death....
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World News and Trends: "Safe sex" fading in Britain

New research and statistics indicate that Britain's young people are increasingly ignoring warnings about the dangers of AIDS and other sexually transmissible diseases and are reverting to promiscuous sexual behavior-with predictable results.
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World News and Trends: Turning the corner on cancer?

New cancer cases in the United States are declining for the first time in decades, according to a joint report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. Officials reported that...
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Futuristic Weapons and the Bible

One particular prophecy in the Bible comes pretty close to describing the type of non-lethal weapons governments are developing now.
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Instant Epidemics: The New Breed of Weapons

Chemical and biological weapons have recently made headlines. Although the weapons themselves are not new, the magnitude of the threat certainly is. Does Bible prophecy tell us anything about the likelihood of these weapons being used?
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The World's Most Deadly Disease

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost two billion people-one third of the world's population-are infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria.
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Malaria Poses a New Threat

Malaria, a disease that comes to humans through tropical mosquitoes, is posing a new threat. During the past five to 10 years, the disease has reappeared in regions where health authorities once thought it was under control, and it is...
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Common Bacteria Make a Deadly Comeback

Can medical science reliably protect us from bad bugs? Some observers aren't so sure.
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Drug-Resistant Bubonic Plague

A case of bubonic plague was recently discovered in Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa.
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Are New Plagues Emerging?

We can add Pfiesteria to the list of other newly discovered killers that have made headlines in recent years-AIDS, Ebola, Lassa fever and hantavirus, among others.
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Deadly Diseases: Again a Threat to Humanity?

Through the centuries, man's greatest threat often has not been natural disasters or warfare, but the microscopic creatures with which we share the earth. When epidemics break out, man has often been able to do little other than let the...
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Could it happen again?

The influenza epidemic that traversed the globe from September 1918 through March 1919 left more than 20 million dead--could another epidemic of this magnitude strike again?
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World News and Trends: Genital herpes infects 45 million Americans

In the last two decades genital herpes has doubled among white adults in their 20s while increasing fivefold among white teenagers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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World News and Trends: New AIDS treatments falter

In recent years scientists and physicians hailed new AIDS treatments that appeared to halt the virus's advance and bring considerable improvement to patients in advanced stages of the disease.
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World News and Trends: AIDS epidemics predicted for Asia, Eastern Europe

The World Bank, predicting that the incidence of AIDS is about to explode in India, China and Eastern Europe, advocates an aggressive prevention program to include more-widespread condom distribution and needle exchanges for drug users.
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World News and Trends: War allows deadly epidemic's return

Sleeping sickness, an ancient disease doctors once hoped to eradicate from Africa, is making a deadly return visit courtesy of the 15-year civil war in Sudan.
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World News and Trends: Resistant staph found in America

A deadly strain of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria was recently identified in a Michigan man, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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World News and Trends: Supergerm resists antibiotics

Health researchers are studying something they hoped they would never see, a deadly staph bacterium that can resist every drug in science's infection-treatment arsenal.
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World News and Trends: World health picture not encouraging

Because we are on average living much longer lives than did many of our forebears, the quality of those lives is sometimes marred by the unwelcome presence of disease.
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World News and Trends: Bacteria, parasites, viruses threatening U.S. water

Microscopic waterborne organisms are replacing potential cancer-causing chemicals as the primary threat to drinking water in some U.S. cities, according to health officials.
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