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Terrifying Diseases

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Last updated: October 15, 2024
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First submittedOctober 15, 2024
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A blister is induced and bursts then a worm emerges slowly for 3 to 10 weeks
Dracunculiasis
100% fatal and no known cure
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
Muscles tendons and connective tissues turn to bone, paralyzing the patient
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
An aquatic amoeba goes through the nose and eats your brain
Naegleriasis
Only 5 cases were ever reported, but 4 of them were fatal
Lujo
Makes you afraid of water (99% fatality)
Rabies
Extreme pain due to a breakdown of the nervous system
Complex regional pain syndrome
Viral haemorrhagic fever most commonly found in Liberia
Ebola
You slowly lose the ability to sleep, then you die from the exhaustion
Fatal insomnia
Abnormal cell growth which can spread to other body parts
Cancer
A worm that infiltrates the eye, 2nd most common cause of blindness
Loa loa
Sudden unexplained death of a <1 year old child
Sudden infant death syndrome
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Extreme pain on 1 side of the face, often drives the patient to suicide
Trigeminal neuralgia
Viral haemorrhagic fever with no treatment
Marburg virus disease
100% fatal if untreated
Nipah
Ulcers wear down tissue until it's destroyed (90% fatality)
Noma
Fungal infection usually affecting the feet, eventually disabling
Emycetoma
Fungal infection that causes eye bulging
Mucormycosis
Plasma leaks from blood vessels, causing swelling
Clarkson's disease
Caused by a retrovirus which attacks the immune system
AIDS
Joseph Carey Merrick had this disease
Elephant man syndrome
Caused by Burkholderia mallei, you can get it from horses
Glanders
Caused by Francisella tularensis, spread by mosquitoes
Tularemia
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CardinalSin
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Level 82
Oct 16, 2024
Please accept English spellings (e.g. Tularaemia) and also Myositis Ossificans.

I thought that Ebola was more commonly found in the Congo basin. One of the reasons why the outbreak in 2014 wasn't initially recognised was that it had never before been seen in that region of Africa.

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