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- Comorbidity: the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.
- Schistosomiasis: a disease caused by liver flukes that has affected humans for more than 100,000 years.
- Meta-analysis: an examination of data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends.
- Prehistory: the period between when modern humans first appeared and the dawn of agriculture.
- Columbian exchange: the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas were introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to North and South America and vice versa.
- Zoonosis: a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals.
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