Aerosmith’s mid-tour announcement that the band is retiring after five decades has spotlighted the little-known condition frontman Steven Tyler is battling.

On Friday, the band announced on its website and its X account that Tyler’s ongoing vocal issues led them to the "heartbreaking" decision to stop performing.

"As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other," the statement read.

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"He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury. We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side."

"Sadly, it is clear that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage."

Prior to the tour cancellation, the band had postponed a few dates of their "Peace Out" farewell tour after Tyler damaged his vocal cords during a Sept. 10 performance, according to reports.

"I’m heartbroken to say I have received strict doctor’s orders not to sing for the next 30 days," Tyler, 75, posted on Instagram. 

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"I sustained vocal cord damage during Saturday’s show that led to subsequent bleeding. We’ll need to postpone a few dates so that we can come back and give you the performance you deserve."

Later in September, the band posted on Facebook that Tyler’s injury was "more serious than initially thought."

"His doctor has confirmed that in addition to the damage to his vocal cords, he fractured his larynx, which requires ongoing care."

The larynx — also known as the voice box — is a hollow tube that runs vertically down the middle of the neck, above the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus, according to Cleveland Clinic.

As part of the respiratory system, it also helps to prevent food from entering the windpipe while breathing.

The larynx is essential for breathing and producing vocal sounds, Cleveland Clinic states.

A laryngeal fracture, which Tyler suffered, is rare, but it can occur when there is a blunt external force applied to the voice box, according to Joel E. Portnoy, M.D., a laryngologist and otolaryngologist at ENT and Allergy Associates in Lake Success, New York.

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"After about age 30, the laryngeal cartilage becomes bone, which is more brittle and subject to fracture," Portnoy told Fox News Digital via email.

"This can be life-threatening if the injuries extend internally and may require emergency surgery to repair."

Patients with trauma to the larynx typically experience hoarseness, neck pain, shortness of breath, loss of voice, and pain while speaking or swallowing, Medscape states.

For a singer, a laryngeal fracture can lead to "devastating consequences," Portnoy said.

"At best, internal swelling will lead to temporary hoarseness, but in rare scenarios, irreparable damage can occur that permanently impairs the ability to sing or speak," he said. 

"Thankfully, most laryngeal fractures are minor and respond to voice rest, humidification, close monitoring and sometimes steroids to manage," the doctor added.

In some severe cases, surgical intervention may be necessary.

In general, most vocal injuries are due to local tissue trauma, such as vocal fold hemorrhage (bleeding under the surface) or mucosal tears (like a scrape of the vocal fold surface), according to Portnoy.

"These typically resolve with absolute voice rest, humidification and time," he said.

For singers and others who rely on their voices for their professions, timely diagnosis and management is critical, Portnoy advised. 

"General prevention of vocal injuries includes vocal warm-ups, humidification and hydration, as well as employing good vocal techniques," he said. 

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"We always advocate for listening to your body – if you feel a change in your voice, or are experiencing fatigue, strain or pain, it’s generally time to refrain from voice usage."

Aerosmith isn’t the only band to recently announce a tour cancellation due to illness.

Last month, Eddie Vedder and the members of Pearl Jam canceled a string of shows on the European leg of their Dark Matter World Tour, citing recovery from a continued "illness" within the band.

In June, Neil Young, 78, and his band Crazy Horse announced that they were taking an "unplanned break" due to illness among various band members. 

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Also in June, country music star Mark Chesnutt announced the cancellation of his tour as he recovered from emergency quadruple bypass surgery. 

Janelle Ash, Tracy Wright and Christina Dugan Ramirez of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.

Last Friday night, as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was lighting the Shabbat candles, he was the clear and obvious favorite to be tapped as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ running mate. But that was not to be. And on Tuesday, it sure looks like that is because he was a little too Jewish.

Yes, the vice-presidential nomination passed over Shapiro as if he had lamb’s blood painted over his door, landing instead on Midwest Protestant Tim Walz -- an anodyne pick less likely to offend those who hate Israel or for that matter Jews.

In the lead up to the snub of Shapiro, which Harris chose to commit in his hometown of Philadelphia, many voices in and around the party, both Jewish and not, warned that this choice of Walz would smack of obvious and odious antisemitism.

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First, John King, and then several additional anchors on CNN, expressed concern that Shapiro’s views on Israel were being singled out. This was happening even though they hardly differed from any other potential V.P. candidate. Still, his status as a practicing Jew could prove disqualifying for some progressive voters.

These concerns were echoed throughout social media by Jewish celebrities and activists, including the extremely liberal actor Josh Malina, who wrote "Shapiro's views on Israel are in line with the other VP contenders. Shapiro, however, is...well, Jewish. This feels like unforced anitsemitism, Cynthia," in response to far-left actor Cynthia Nixon on X.

Even some Democrats currently in office agreed.

"The Anti-Israel activists who have been falsely accusing the Biden-Harris Administration of funding ‘genocide’ are suddenly fine with Vice President Harris, as long as she declines to choose Governor Shapiro as a running mate," New York Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres said on X, adding, "These hypocrites are full of shit and their antisemitic dog whistling should be given no veto power over the selection of a presidential running mate."

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Where, by the way, is his fellow New Yorker and most powerful Jew in Washington, Sen. Chuck Schumer on all of this? Honestly, since the horrendous Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7th, it's as if the senate minority leader has resigned, or gone into hiding. 

Needless to say, now that Shapiro’s vice-presidential dreams have burned out like the last candle on Hanukkah, most on the left will forget all about their outrage. Just as many have forgotten how outraged they were over the potential ouster of Joe Biden from the ticket.

It all just gets memory holed and we move on. At least that is what they hope, but there is a problem, which is that Republicans have noticed this antisemitism, too.

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On Tuesday, just hours before the announcement, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance took to the radio airwaves in an interview with Hugh Hewitt and said, "They will have not picked Shapiro frankly because of antisemitism in their own caucus, in their own party...The far-left doesn't like the fact that he is a Jewish-American."

The senator from Ohio is not without evidence in advancing this claim, as we saw in the spring when many Democrats, such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her band of girl boss communists fawned all over antisemitic college occupiers who threatened and harassed Jewish students.

We saw this bigotry when Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, who openly lobbied for Walz against Shapiro, said that all Jews care about is the "Benjamins."

Were there other reasons that Harris might have opted against Shapiro? Yes. Perhaps he may have more gravitas than she does. Walz is popular but not overshadowing. He’s more like a sitcom dad, but the timing is everything here.

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It was not until Shapiro seemed to be a lock for Harris’ running mate that these concerns about his Jewishness popped up and that his record on Israel was thrust in the spotlight, even though it mirrors everyone on the short list and even Kamala Harris herself. 

It is almost impossible to believe that Shapiro, a popular governor in the most key battleground state in the entire nation, would have been denied this rich political prize if his last name was Smith, or, well, Harris.

In the early 20th Century, there was division between long-established, well-assimilated and educated Jews and the newcomers from the shtetls of Eastern Europe with their foreign garb and loud, obvious religious observance.

I can remember my great-grandmother, fully of the fancier faction, sometimes shaking her head when discussing the newcomers and muttering, "too Jewish."

The Democrats now face a similar issue. It is fine to be a Jew in the party if that means you like Woody Allen movies, eat Chinese food on Christmas and get all the references on "Curb your Enthusiasm." But the candle lighting, and the bread? Do that only in the privacy of your own home. 

This year the Democratic Party hung a sign on the door to the vice presidency saying, "Jews Need Not Apply" -- at least not those who are obvious about, and proud of, their religious faith.

It is a dark and ugly reality, but one we must stay focused on. Because when antisemitism takes root, it is a fast growing and very dangerous weed that spreads when good people look away.

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