<Dd> The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body . For this reason, diseases are associated with dysfunctioning of the body's normal homeostatic processes . The term disease has both a count sense (a disease, two diseases, many diseases) and a noncount sense (not much disease, less disease, a lot of disease). Commonly, the term is used to refer specifically to infectious diseases, which are clinically evident diseases that result from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular organisms, and aberrant proteins known as prions . An infection that does not and will not produce clinically evident impairment of normal functioning, such as the presence of the normal bacteria and yeasts in the gut, or of a passenger virus, is not considered a disease . By contrast, an infection that is asymptomatic during its incubation period, but expected to produce symptoms later, is usually considered a disease . Non-infectious diseases are all other diseases, including most forms of cancer, heart disease, and genetic disease . </Dd> <Dd> disease that began at some point during one's lifetime, as opposed to disease that was already present at birth, which is congenital disease . "Acquired" sounds like it could mean "caught via contagion", but it simply means acquired sometime after birth . It also sounds like it could imply secondary disease, but acquired disease can be primary disease . </Dd> <Dd> disease of a short - term nature (acute); the term sometimes also connotes a fulminant nature </Dd> <Dd> disease that is a long - term issue (chronic) </Dd>

Which one of the following is considered a disease of poverty (e.g. communicable)