I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

In their final years, Jim and Shirley faced cancers, fractures, infections, neurological illness.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

These are years that we could get.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

Let's flip the table yet again

Is it badly infected?

18.Rare diseases

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

He was taken off the Dutch ship in Martinique and died a week later of consumption. Oh...

Well, it's a bug.

This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

OK. Now let's move from sleep to diseases.

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

I was actually prosecuted under two quite ancient acts in the U.K.

Highly contagious.

So, it's not an option for low income patients.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

Those men may well have been exposed to the virus, too.

Compromised air quality.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

They show us filter paper they've used to collect the animals' blood.

Pull yourself together. It's like he infected me.

The girl... he's infecting her.

Similarly, we have the tools with which to ask the question

AlDS, incredibly, has just been named, in the past month, a chronic disease, meaning that a 20 year old who becomes infected with HlV is expected not to live weeks, months, or a couple of years, as we said only a decade ago, but is thought to live decades, probably to die in his '60s or '70s from other causes altogether.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

And feet in the water will develop fungus, infections, and that infection pains because then other insects bite that point.

And the current state of the art in predicting an epidemic if you're the CDC or some other national body is to sit in the middle where you are and collect data from physicians and laboratories in the field that report the prevalence or the incidence of certain conditions.

Remarkably 1.1 million deaths averted every year.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

That kind of hatred is contagious.

And you'll note, that's the local data from Los Angeles

Life is a fatal sexually transmitted disease.

It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?