It was a question only of when the disease would take delivery.
In cases of older people, the disease takes longer, but is still almost always fatal.
The disease had also taken longer than usual to run its course.
The disease was taking something from him as well, and he wasn't even sick.
The disease would eventually take his life in 2007 at the age of 46.
Many questions remain about the turn that the disease has taken this year.
And once the disease took hold, death, if it occurred, came a day or two later.
However, it is hard to predict what course the disease will take for a given individual.
As a doctor, she could do nothing but watch the disease take the life of her patient.
Pete would be allowed to live until the disease took his life.