| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Makes you afraid of water (99% fatality) | Rabies | 73%
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| Viral haemorrhagic fever most commonly found in Liberia | Ebola | 69%
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| Abnormal cell growth which can spread to other body parts | Cancer | 67%
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| Caused by a retrovirus which attacks the immune system | AIDS | 50%
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| Sudden unexplained death of a <1 year old child | Sudden infant death syndrome | 38%
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| An aquatic amoeba goes through the nose and eats your brain | Naegleriasis | 22%
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| You slowly lose the ability to sleep, then you die from the exhaustion | Fatal insomnia | 19%
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| 100% fatal and no known cure | Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy | 17%
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| A blister is induced and bursts then a worm emerges slowly for 3 to 10 weeks | Dracunculiasis | 16%
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| Caused by Francisella tularensis, spread by mosquitoes | Tularemia | 13%
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| Extreme pain on 1 side of the face, often drives the patient to suicide | Trigeminal neuralgia | 8%
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| Muscles tendons and connective tissues turn to bone, paralyzing the patient | Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva | 3%
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| A worm that infiltrates the eye, 2nd most common cause of blindness | Loa loa | 3%
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| 100% fatal if untreated | Nipah | 3%
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| Caused by Burkholderia mallei, you can get it from horses | Glanders | 2%
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| Only 5 cases were ever reported, but 4 of them were fatal | Lujo | 2%
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| Fungal infection that causes eye bulging | Mucormycosis | 2%
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| Plasma leaks from blood vessels, causing swelling | Clarkson's disease | 0%
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| Extreme pain due to a breakdown of the nervous system | Complex regional pain syndrome | 0%
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| Joseph Carey Merrick had this disease | Elephant man syndrome | 0%
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| Fungal infection usually affecting the feet, eventually disabling | Emycetoma | 0%
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| Viral haemorrhagic fever with no treatment | Marburg virus disease | 0%
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| Ulcers wear down tissue until it's destroyed (90% fatality) | Noma | 0%
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