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Female green praying mantis (Hierodula sp.) has a spot on its wing to resemble disease spots on the plants on which it feeds, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

A group of ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus), British Columbia, Canada, North America

Plague cottages, Eyam, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Coral Bleaching, Acropora, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Vineyard with roses, traditionally planted to give early warning of vine disease, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Buddha statue on the Terrace of the Leper King, Angkor, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Vineyard with roses, traditionally planted to give early warning of vine disease, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Healthcare, botswana. Gaborone. Hiv/aids awareness billboard

Kaluapapa former Hanson's disease (leper) colony, Molokai Island, Hawaii, United States of America, North America

Healthcare, south africa. Johannesburg

AIDS sign in the village of Gimbii, Oromo country, Welega state, Ethiopia, Africa

Leprosy patients at the Sitanala Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia

Devotees of Sag bata (Sakpata) the Voodoo god of death, disease and pestilence, dancing at the Ouidah Voodoo festival, Ouidah, Benin, West Africa, Africa

Painting of Tulsi (Holy Basil) (Ocimum tenuflorum) an important symbol in Hindu traditions and an Ayurvedic ingredient used for colds, headaches, stomach disorders, inflammation and heart disease

The village of the leprous, medieval festival of Provins, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France, Europe

In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga testing local people for malaria, many of whom proved positive for the disease, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Foot and mouth, uk. Se england, essex. Bulldozers lifting corpses of foot and mouth disease infected cows, slaughtered at a farm in essex. March 2001

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Hematology Analyzer for analyzing blood in one of the labs in the specialist cancer hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Varian nuclear proton therapy machine in the specialist cancer hospital.

El salvador family of teresa de jesus perez, 36, hiv+, left with three sons, one of whom, 8-year-old raphael, is also hiv+. they are supported by contra sida, san salvador. teresa supports herself and family by sewing blouses and dresses at home, shown here with sons raphael, who is hiv+ (on left) and jose, who is not infected

India. Pilgrimage to malayattoor, a hill which saint thomas the apostle is believed to have climbed around 55 ad, leaving his footprints at the top. It is a major pilgrim centre for christians as well as hindus and moslems, who believe the trip can cure them of physical and mental disease. Kerala. Statue of thomas in the lower church

Kenya catholic lay missionaries orphan. Korogocha, nairobi

India. Saint thomas baptising a brahmin in the periyar river. Pilgrimage to malayattoor, a hill which saint thomas the apostle is believed to have climbed around 55 ad, leaving his footprints at the top. It is a major pilgrim centre for christians as well as hindus and moslems, who believe the trip can cure them of physical and mental disease. Kerala

Cambodia seedlings of hope hospice for aids patients, phnom penh. woman saying buddhist chants to another who is dying of aids

India the peryar river, where thomas landed before climbing mount malayattoor. Pilgrimage to malayattoor, a hill which saint thomas the apostle is believed to have climbed around 55 ad, leaving his footprints at the top. It is a major pilgrim centre for christians as well as hindus and moslems, who believe the trip can cure them of physical and mental disease. Kerala

Kenya aids orphans of korogocho slum, nairobi

Social worker (left) visiting blind woman with aids, tanzania. Musoma

Cambodia seedlings of hope hospice for aids patients, phnom penh. dr. phan phearath, employed by maryknoll, visiting patients

Cambodia seedlings of hope hospice for aids patients, phnom penh. woman saying buddhist chants to another who is dying of aids

Tanzania baby sick with cerebral malaria, kowak hospital

Ethiopia boy of mekelle, tigray, waiting at distribution centre

Tanzania immunising children at kowak hospital

India. Faithfiul at a station of the cross during the pilgrimage to malayattoor, a hill which saint thomas the apostle is believed to have climbed around 55 ad, leaving his footprints at the top. It is a major pilgrim centre for christians as well as hindus and moslems, who believe the trip can cure them of physical and mental disease. Kerala

A sign for a Leprosy service in Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Catholic sister with aids orphans, tanzania. Musoma

Gambia billboard

Uganda get an aids test! Sign. village of kayunga distric

A bee with deformed wings as a result of attack by Varoa mites in a beehive in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Fife power station, a gas turbine power plant on the site of the former Westfield open cast coal mine, near Ballingry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Wych elms (Ulmus glabra) killed by Dutch elm disease summer 2007, Scotland, UK

Sheep infected with foot and mouth disease culled in North Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Cattle infected with foot and mouth disease culled and burning on a funeral pyre in North Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Captive Western gorilla, gorilla gorilla. Female and baby and adolescent in La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, critically endangered due to loss of habitat, hunting and infectious disease.

Dead sheep culled because they were contaminated with foot and mouth disease in north Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Cattle infected with foot and mouth disease culled and burning on a funeral pyre in North Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

'Hunters Deer and Elk head drop' sign and barrel, Wyoming, USA. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department collect samples from deer and elk during the hunting season to test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state's deer and elk herds. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease that has been diagnosed in free ranging deer, elk and moose in 11 states and two Canadian provinces.

Hagshaw Hill wind farm above an abandoned open cast coal mine in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A queen cell in a beehive infected and damaged by the Varoa mite, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Cattle infected with foot and mouth disease culled and burning on a funeral pyre in North Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A funeral pyre burning infected animals with Foot and Mouth Disease near Longtown in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A bee with deformed wings as a result of attack by Varoa mites in a beehive in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Avian pox outbreak at the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) breeding and nesting colony at Salisbury Plains, Bay of Isles on South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.