Medical students who study frightening diseases for the first time routinely develop vivid delusions of having the "disease of the week"-whatever they are currently studying.

This is a very frightening disease that has nearly wiped out the swine population in parts of Africa.

Though a frightening new disease, AIDS is no longer so novel that such an effort would be premature.

It even seemed that the government might turn the erupting disaster of the frightening new respiratory disease to Mr. Hu's long-term political advantage.

It is a frightening disease that never truly goes away.

(Epilepsy was a frightening disease in those days.)

But cancer is a uniquely frightening disease, and people will pay almost any price for treatments.

A frightening disease, raging through your entire system: those sores on your skin are the least part of it.

Ovarian cancer is a frightening disease for older women and it frustrates their health care professionals.

Now it can be quite a frightening disease especially for the sufferers families.