wasting disease

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Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the primary causative agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) and other related diseases in pigs.
豬圓環(huán)病毒2型（PCV2）是引起豬斷奶后多系統(tǒng)衰竭綜合征等相關(guān)疾病的重要病原。
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have some form of MD, a group of muscle-wasting diseases that have no cure and until now have proved intractable to stem cell therapy.
有近百萬的美國人患有各種類型的進(jìn)行性肌營養(yǎng)不良，這是一種肌肉廢退性疾病，至今還沒有治愈的方法。

In the U.S. nine states have enacted laws permitting marijuana use by people with cancer, AIDS and other wasting diseases.
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