Can you guess the disease?

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Across
  1. 4. It can be passed to a baby during pregnancy and childbirth and sometimes through breastfeeding.
  2. 5. One of the most infectious—yet vaccine-preventable—diseases.
  3. 7. Prevention involves reducing your exposure to mice, rats, squirrels and other animals that may be infected.
  4. 9. There is currently no effective cure. Once people get it, they have it for life. But with proper medical care, it can be controlled.
Down
  1. 1. Usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body, such as the brain, the kidneys, or the spine.
  2. 2. The best way to prevent this disease, is by getting a vaccine each year.
  3. 3. Around 80% of people infected with this don't know they have it.
  4. 6. Some survivors with mild initial cases can have wide-ranging health issues for two years or more.
  5. 8. A person's skin may turn bluish-gray from extreme loss of fluids caused by this disease.