### condition | illness | disease | asthma:

Occupational asthma
* affects only a minority of workers.
* can result in severe and potentially fatal breathing problems
  - take weeks, months or even years to develop
* is associated with repeated exposure to the work environment
  - asthma contracted in the workplace
  - one disease for which exposure is part of the case definition
  - the most frequent occupation alrespiratory disease diagnosis
* notifiable disease in Western Australia and is compensable.
* type of asthma caused by exposure to inhaled irritants in the workplace.
* very real illness and can take months or years to manifest.

Severe asthma
* can result in death.
* requires no exposure to extreme cold or environmental pollutants.
* serious health concern that can lead to respiratory failure and death.

Uncontrolled asthma
* can be a threat to maternal well-being and fetal growth and survival
  - cause lung damage
* can hinder a child's attendance, participation, and progress in school
  - student's attendance, participation, and progress in school
  - lead to depression and low self-esteem
  - rob oxygen from the baby
* causes a decrease in the oxygen content of the mother s blood
  - in the mother's blood

Autoimmune disease
* Many autoimmune diseases are associated with characteristic auto-antibodies
  - rare
* Most autoimmune diseases affect ability
  - organ tissue
  - are fatal
  - cause inflammation
* Some autoimmune diseases affect areas
  - women
  - young women
  - are characterized by growth
  - fall between the two types
  - have molecular mimicry
  - occur more frequently in certain minority populations
* are diseases
  - illnesses
* attack tissue.
* have causes.

Autoimmune disorder
* Most autoimmune disorder prevents absorption.
* Some autoimmune disorder causes inflammation
  - disorders are gene-based
* are among the major causes of lifelong disability in the community.
* are often difficult to diagnose
  - long-term diseases with symptoms that can come and go over time
  - one of the continuing mysteries of immunology
  - rife with parasitic infections

### condition | illness | disease | autoimmune disorder:

Morphea
* is autoimmune disorder
* occurs as patches of thick and discolored skin.

Myasthenia
* can affect muscles anywhere in the body, including the respiratory muscles
  - have a serious impact on the simple activities of daily living
* gravis involves fluctuating levels of weakness of commonly used muscles
  - of commonly-used muscles
  - with ocular involvement in older patients
* is often an invisible disability.
* often presents with ocular signs and symptoms.

Autosomal disease
* Most autosomal diseases affect people
  - are caused by mutation
* Some autosomal diseases cause production.

### condition | illness | disease:

Bacterial disease
* Most bacterial diseases affect animals
  - humans
  - lab animals
  - other animals
* Most bacterial diseases lead to damage
  - nerve damage
* Some bacterial diseases affect chicks
  - have distinctive odors
  - kill plants
* are by far more well known
  - uncommon in Colorado
* cause pain, distress and economic loss
  - spots, soft spots, and wilts
* include pneumonia.
* is treated with medicines called antibiotics, for example penicillins.
* tends to have more purulent discharge.

Bad luck
* can make an animal with good genes look average or a genetically average animal look poor.
* is an asthmatic caught behind a bus in rush hour traffic
  - luck

Black lung
* are pneumoconiosis.
* coal miner's disease caused by the frequent inhaling of coal dust.
* preventable lung disease caused by breathing coal dust.
* respiratory disease that can be caused by long-term exposure to coal dust.