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A disease is a specific condition: measles, colds, flu, etc. They have definite symptoms, causes (usually) and treatments.
A syndrome is a collection of symptoms or conditions that, taken as a whole, indicate an underlying cause that may or may not be fully understood.
A specific example: Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a disease. The issues that can develop as a result of the suppression of the immune system by HIV -- certain cancers, forms of pneumonia, thrush and a variety of other diseases -- make up the syndrome that we call AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). HIV infection alone is not AIDS.
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