Surely she wouldn't let him die of some dreaded disease, but how stupid would he have been to come out here without telling anyone?

Tuberculosis has a history of being a dreaded disease.

In the years after the war he contracted consumption and his final days were a desperate battle against this dreaded disease.

Now they would be investigating murder under the threat of a dreaded disease.

It's polio - the second coming of the dreaded disease.

"Oh, so you have the dreaded disease," a secretary at the doctor's office said when she read the diagnosis.

Many Americans are infected with this dreaded disease and eventually die from it.

The gene is also the cause of a dreaded genetic disease.

She's had the dreaded disease once before, but she'd caught it again, which is unusual.

Cancer has long been among the most dreaded diseases of mankind.