disease

a condition that affects the body and makes you ill

enfermedad, dolencia

• have a disease

Collocations chronic disease · infectious disease

• He has a rare disease.

  Él tiene una enfermedad rara.

a problem that affects society as a whole, such as poverty or crime

problema social, mal

• fight against a disease

Collocations social disease · disease of society

• Poverty is a social disease.

  La pobreza es una enfermedad social.