"contraer (enfermedad)" in English

Every one in five Europeans will contract a disease that causes memory loss.

People with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at increased risk from cardiovascular disease.

This may contribute to an increased risk of developing chronic lung disease, and hence a requirement for oxygen.

Poor people are more likely to become ill and die at an earlier age than those who are more affluent.

to catch a disease

Last but not least, it is necessary to ensure better conditions, in particular safety, for health workers who provide assistance in these regions.

The precautionary principle that is enshrined in the EU Treaty, however, makes it imperative to establish a limit value at which the health risk is extremely low.

People who may be at risk of contracting this disease are not being examined and isolated in time, and travel to the sources of the infection has continued for too long.

As a result, people die unnecessarily because they are scared to go to treatment centres: they are afraid of catching the disease there rather than being treated for it.

in writing. - I warmly welcome this initiative and the possibilities it affords to the many millions of Europeans predicted to be affected by cancer in the years to come.

In view of the tragedy a baby carrying the trisomy 21 gene represents, it is appropriate to add to the Annex 2 list the procedures enabling the detection of all risk of this illness.