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• n  involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
• n  an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)

• pulmonary tuberculosis
• consumption
• phthisis
• wasting disease
• drug addiction

News & Articles

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• Coral 'White Plague' Epidemic Could Be Caused by Virus
  The Caribbean Sea is battling an epidemic — a nasty plague that spreads and kills quickly. Unlike the historical Black Plague, which killed millions of people in the Middle Ages, this so-called white plague is devastating populations of marine corals.
  Oct. 15, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• Virus may be causing deadly coral 'white plague' epidemic in Caribbean
  The Caribbean Sea is battling an epidemic — a nasty plague that spreads and kills quickly. Unlike the historical Black Plague, which killed millions of people in the Middle Ages, this so-called white plague is devastating populations of marine corals.
  Oct. 15, 2013 - NBC NEWS