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The most exotic diseases in history

With modern diseases that can turn into epidemics, such as swine flu and SARS and mad cow disease, scientific interest worldwide with some rare disease that only affected a few thousand, among the most prominent of these diseases we chose you to introduce you to their symptoms.

1. “morghilons”

He complains that 14,000 people around the world, show symptoms through the emergence of black and Red fibers and blue skin, with a sense of tingling. This disease is associated with a sense of fatigue and loss of memory and pain in the joints, and stems from the region where for the first time in France, when some of the children following the emergence of black hair from the skin in the seventeenth century.

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2. “Progeria”

This disease is known as “premature aging”, so it looks as if they were infected by the elderly even though they in fact children, the disease affects patients, where the shapes of their heads and their eyes exophthalmic, lose their hair, and often leads to death in the early ages.

3. “water sense”

There are 30 believed infected with the disease, symptoms usually appear in the advanced period, caused by hormonal imbalance affects women at birth, which causes patients severe itching associated with severe pain in the skin when bathing or drinking water.

4. “speak a strange language”

Registered medicine 60 cases of the disease around the world, where he finds patients themselves speak the language one is unable to understand, it was believed that the disease which itself, but recent studies have gone that a defect in the brain lead to switch the word words and letters.

5. “a deadly laugh!”

Some scientists called “Kuru” and had only “as soon as” tribe in New Guinea, and shows through the involvement of the patient in a hysterical laughter, surprise to start after months of suffering, pain in the joints and loss of speech.

And ending with the death of the patients symptoms appear in their brains dissected corpses after the gaps, the American physician Carleton godsik to study disease, and concluded that it began to spread after the tribe members to eat the bodies of infected, this discovery has led to the halt usually eat corpses, causing the disappearance of the disease in 1976, and won the Nobel Prize for Science godsik.

6. “turning joints to the bones”

And once appeared in 1938 by Harry w. aistelk, who began to lose the ability to gradually become unable to move any member except his mouth at the age of 39, he aistelk after his death to donate his skeleton for scientific research to study the disease, is currently with the Philadelphia Museum.

7. AIDS “Alice in Wonderland”

It is a disease of the senses, which makes one believe that what he sees or hears or touches much smaller than it is in reality, and may feel that his body is too small, too, and the disease causes her to migraine headaches.

The doctors name was inspired by the story of “Alice in Wonderland”, where similar conditions, champion and although the medical debate over whether the story author, Lewis Carroll, suffers from this disease is undecided yet, but it was definitely suffers from migraine headaches.

8. “broviria”

Despite the rarity of the disease, but his fame stemmed from the King of England “insane” George III in 18th century, show symptoms via the urine turned to violet, due to complications affect the body’s production of protein “Hemi” is necessary for red blood cells.

Also symptoms of allergies, pain in the lower parts of the body, hair growth on the front, believed that Mary Queen of Scots, and the Dutch painter van Gogh, King of ancient Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, exposed to the disease.

9. AIDS “pica”

A word that means gluttony, accept people living with this disease to eat all the way, even paint and dirt.

10. AIDS “Mobius”

It is a very rare genetic disease, and shows through the paralysis affects the entire facial muscles, so patients are unable even to close their eyes or turn their sights, and is associated with abnormalities in the bones of the legs, or congenital deficiency in the number of fingers.