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Originally Posted by Mukarrum View Post
Have any the simple and easy text about following diseases.
Hepatitis, AIDS, Dengue Virus, Swine Flue, Malaria, TB.
Hepatitis: Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin.
AIDS: A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
Dengue Virus: An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.
Swine Flu: An acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Malaria: An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever.
TB: Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages.)

Above definitions were extracted from Word Web Dictionary, Version:6.1
Wikipedia these diseases if you desire detailed information.

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