As in every sphere of human life, in medicine also in recent decades a great progress is made in the field of discovery and treatment of DIFICULT AND DANGEROUS DISEASES. Thanks to good diagnostics doctors are able to discover illness in the very beginning and successfully treat it.
Even beside that there is a large number of diseases for which modern science not only doesn’t have a cure for, but cannot precisely explain many states in which patients are in. We are talking about RARE DISEASES, that can be banal, but also very life threatening.
10SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION
The human body bursts into flames without any sign of ignition. Numerous cases reported.
09MORGELLONS DISEASE
Victims complain of crawling skin and fibers in oozing open wounds. Some believe it’s just a psychological delusion.
08MOEVIUS SYNDROME
It is unexplained disease that hinders the development of facial nerves. Victims can’t smile, from or blink.
07ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA
So called ‘sleepy sickness’ traps people own bodies. Sufferers become living statues – motionless and speechless.
06DANCING MANIA
It is medieval-era illness where people danced uncontrollably for week on end. Many died from exhaustion.
05NODDING DISEASS
Nodding disease is syndrome that emerged in Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda in the 1960s. It stunts growth and causes nodding seizures.
04PIZA
It is the craving non-food materials such as dirt, paper, or hair. No definitive causes or cure has been found.
03ENGLISH SWEATING SICKNESS
It is disease that haunted Tudor England. It resulted in cascades of sweat, with death following within hours.
02EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROM
Subjects suffer from a loud banging in the head-akin to a bomb going off. Its causes are unexplained, but it is often linked to stress.
01PERU METEORITE ILLNESS
In 2007 a meteorite struck a remote part of Peru. Locals and scientists both started complaining of vomiting and headaches.
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