Does anyone know of any rare diseases or interesting/bizarre diseases I can look up for a project?

October 28, 2008 | By admin In New Diseases |
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9 Comments so far

  1. midnightmoon62 on October 28th, 2008

    Mermaid syndrome. That I am aware of, there is only one published case in recent history. That case has been featured on the discovery channel, where I first heard about it. A few years after the birth, the family was also featured on Oprah. I dont have time to search for it, i am on my way out, but you should be able to google mermaid syndrom and find the case.

  2. AnnaKate on October 29th, 2008

    Complex Partial Seizure Disorder.

  3. JeffyB on October 30th, 2008

    Hanta virus — just look it up on Wikipedia.org

  4. TweetyBird on November 2nd, 2008

    There are dozens. Run a search for “rare diseases” and/or “bizarre diseases”. By the way, mermaid syndrome is sirenomelia and is not a disease. Complex partial seizures are neither rare nor bizarre. Hantavirus is a type of virus and shouldn’t be confused with Hantavirus infection.

    You may something useful here:

  5. Elise C on November 6th, 2008

    ideas: Cushings syndrome
    hyperthyroidism
    tay sachs
    parker-willis

  6. pennypincher on November 7th, 2008

    How about periotitis? I had it once.

  7. Glutenfreegirl on November 9th, 2008

    Not so much rare anymroe but extremely underdiagnosed.
    Celiac DIsease

    U could play up the aspects of untreated Celiac such as infertility and cancer.

  8. gail on March 21st, 2009

    I went to the hopital for repetory poblems they decide to do byopcy of my lungs something went terribly my husband was told to tell relatives and friend i was dying and they couldn’t get my vitals under control so I was given last rights
    i was at the legacy park hospital hooked up to all kinds of life support machines.to this day they can’t tell me what i have it is starting to come back you might be able to get some information the hospital is located in tualin or

  9. Peggy. P on March 22nd, 2009

    When I was in my late 50′s I started having headaches, I had never had them before. I saw several doctors who really didn’t diagnose any thing, just suggested over the counter headache remedies. We had jusr moved to a new area in the Texas Hillcountry, and so I asked a new friend to recommend a doctor. She did, and he literally saved my life! He suspected ‘Temporal Artiritis’ and performed a biopsy of my temporal arteries, I had a classic case of the disease. I was on a lot of Prednisone for quite awhile, and my Dr. still tests my SED rate, which is still another indication. I am fine now, but I read up on it and was, frankley, scared to death of what might happen. If you have unexplained sevsere headaches
    you can always check for this disease. I don’t know how common it is, but you can look it up on Google.

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