10. Morgellons Disease
This mysterious illness, which has cropped up again recently, displays almost sci-fi symptoms. Sufferers complain of intensely creepy-crawly skin and
odd fibrous strands which protrude from open wounds. Some in the medical community blame the “disease” on psychotic delusion, but others say the
symptoms are very real.
9. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue is a classic MUPS (medically unexplained physical symptoms) disease, with a diagnosis based only on the ruling out of other
possibilities. More than just feeling a little tired, CFS patients are often bed-ridden for days at a time.
8. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
One version of this rare brain disorder is better known—Mad Cow—and can be contracted by eating contaminated beef. “Regular” CJD is also
always fatal, quick-acting and is the most common form, but develops in most patients for reasons doctors have yet to figure out and can not
prevent.
7. Schizophrenia
xperts consider this the most puzzling of mental disorders, one which robs the sufferer of the ability to logically distinguish between reality and
fantasy. Symptoms range wildly between patients and include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, lack of motivation or emotion, but the
disease has no defining medical tests.
6.Autoimmune Disorders
A catchall term for a host of afflictions including Lupus and MS, autoimmune disorders treat the body’s organs and normal functions as enemy
invaders. They’re usually chronic, always debilitating, and doctors can do little except ease their symptoms.
5.Pica
People diagnosed with Pica have an insatiable urge to eat non-food substances like dirt, paper, glue and clay. Though it is believed to be linked with
mineral deficiency, health experts have found no real cause and no cure for the peculiar disorder.
4. Avian Flu
Humans have no immunity to the powerful flu virus carried by birds, which health official fear could mutate into a strain that can be transmitted
between humans. Death rates for human infected are around 50 percent but, so far, humans have been infected mostly by direct handling with infected
birds. A recent cluster of cases, however, appeared to involved its spread between people.
3.The Common Cold
Even with an estimated one billion cases in the United States every year, doctors still know very little about the nose-running, cough-inducing cold,
whose root causes number in the hundreds (some headway is being made). Time and chicken soup, not antibiotics, is often the only prescription that
helps.
2.Alzheimer’s Disease
Not to be confused with the forgetfulness that affects most everyone in their later years, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disorder that
manifests differently in each of its sufferers. The exact cause isn’t understood and it can’t be effectively treated.
1.AIDS
Twenty-five years since it was first identified, there is still no cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS remains among the world’s most
potent killers, especially in developing countries. The disease likely started with a chimp to human jump, recent research confirmed.
Schizophrenia, AIDS and CJD are the most scary to me, Morgellons is up there too
