A lot of terrible diseases exist, including but not limited to viruses that leave you with your limbs rotting off (CAUTION! Pictures!) or pooping yourself to death in hours.
You don't believe anything could be worse that getting diagnosed with one of those? How about having a doctor stand over your death bed, shrug his shoulders and say, "I dunno, witchcraft?" After all, nothing is scarier than the unknown, and science can't explain the first thing about some pretty horrific diseases, and even less about how to stop them.
Below are 5 terrible diseases that science can't explain:
#1
Stiff Person Syndrome:
People who are afflicted with stiff person syndrome experience increasing rigidity, kinda like a never-ending muscle cramp. This continues and the victim becomes more and more stiffer until the become paralyzed. Severe cases of this causes difficulty in breathing, problems swallowing, muscle ruptures and fucking broken bones.
There is no verifiable reason why this syndrome develops in some people. It could be a result of diabetes, an autoimmune response, genetic disorders of an ancient curse from your village.
Anybody could have this syndrome without even knowing. Treatment involves injections that involve decreasing some of the stiffness.The bottom line, though, is your ass is wheelchair-bound regardless of what you do.
#2
Dancing plague:
Ignore the cool-sounding name, the dancing plague was an actual disease that killed people. It was firs documented 1518, in Strasbourg, France, when Frau Troffea started dancing in the street. After six days, others began to join in; after a week there were 34. By the end of the month there were 400, though at that point most of the people started dropping dead of exhaustion, starvation and strokes. From dancing.
Tying the dancers may come out tops on your list of curing this disease, but being highly infectious, and Hazmat suits not having been invented, doing this would require a lot of guts.
Instead, Strasbourg officials had the brilliant idea of getting everyone to dance more--they herded the afflicted indoors, built them a stage and paid minstrels to crank out more jams, which eventually resulted in most of them dying. Clearly this was the pinnacle of 16th century medicine.
The whole thing just kind of stopped on its own and till date, no explanation has been given for the cause. Many theories have been offered, such as ergotism (poisoning by a certain type of fungus) an CDd mass psychogenic illness, but they have some issues.
#3
Sweating Sickness
The Sweating sickness reportedly reportedly begins with "a sense of apprehension," followed by violent cold shivers, headaches, severe neck, shoulder and limb pain, and oddly, giddiness. After the "cold stage," which can last anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours, there comes the "sweating stage," where the victim starts pouring out sweat like Eniola Badmus trapped in a car with no air conditioning.
The sweating causes more sweating and is usually fatal. It first appeared in
1485 in England, and killed thousands of people within a single year,
most likely because by the time anyone realized they had it, the entire
village was already infected.
We have no freaking idea what it is. People sweat, then die. Quickly. Is it a virus? Bacteria? Something toxic everyone in the area was drinking or eating or breathing? Who knows?
All we have is speculation. Some think it might be a version of the Hanta virus, which is a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola and Lujo, but there's no proof.
#4
Germany's Mystery Disease Infecting Cattle
This disease infects cows and makes them sweat blood, and that even the lightest touch causes a horrible wound as if your fingers were made of razor blades. Despite giving the calves vitamins and blood clotting drugs, they all bleed out in a matter of days, leaving behind piles of goo and some seriously confused fulani cattle rearers. The condition apparently turns the calves' marrow into gelatin and prevents the production of platelets and white blood cells, making them unable to form clots of any kind and leaving them wide open to infection.
Infected cows have been given vaccines to prevent diseases but the trend still continued. It has spread from Germany to Belgium, acting very much like a transmittable disease, but seems to lack anything tangible like a virus to blame.
The main theory right now suggests that the baby cows are somehow developing an immunity to their own bone marrow. That's the kind of thing that just shouldn't happen in a body, like if your skull decides it wants to be "immune" from your brain.
#5
Prions
prions are the cause of several diseases, including ones which you have heard of, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease and ones you have probably never heard of, such as Kuru and Creutzfeldt (Jakob disease). Prions generally affects the central nervous system. It creates holes in the brain and turns it into Swiss cheese. Best of all, they are not destroyed by heat. Good luck with that suya!
You don't believe anything could be worse that getting diagnosed with one of those? How about having a doctor stand over your death bed, shrug his shoulders and say, "I dunno, witchcraft?" After all, nothing is scarier than the unknown, and science can't explain the first thing about some pretty horrific diseases, and even less about how to stop them.
Below are 5 terrible diseases that science can't explain:
#1
Stiff Person Syndrome:
There is no verifiable reason why this syndrome develops in some people. It could be a result of diabetes, an autoimmune response, genetic disorders of an ancient curse from your village.
Anybody could have this syndrome without even knowing. Treatment involves injections that involve decreasing some of the stiffness.The bottom line, though, is your ass is wheelchair-bound regardless of what you do.
#2
Dancing plague:
Ignore the cool-sounding name, the dancing plague was an actual disease that killed people. It was firs documented 1518, in Strasbourg, France, when Frau Troffea started dancing in the street. After six days, others began to join in; after a week there were 34. By the end of the month there were 400, though at that point most of the people started dropping dead of exhaustion, starvation and strokes. From dancing.
Tying the dancers may come out tops on your list of curing this disease, but being highly infectious, and Hazmat suits not having been invented, doing this would require a lot of guts.
Instead, Strasbourg officials had the brilliant idea of getting everyone to dance more--they herded the afflicted indoors, built them a stage and paid minstrels to crank out more jams, which eventually resulted in most of them dying. Clearly this was the pinnacle of 16th century medicine.
The whole thing just kind of stopped on its own and till date, no explanation has been given for the cause. Many theories have been offered, such as ergotism (poisoning by a certain type of fungus) an CDd mass psychogenic illness, but they have some issues.
#3
Sweating Sickness
The Sweating sickness reportedly reportedly begins with "a sense of apprehension," followed by violent cold shivers, headaches, severe neck, shoulder and limb pain, and oddly, giddiness. After the "cold stage," which can last anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours, there comes the "sweating stage," where the victim starts pouring out sweat like Eniola Badmus trapped in a car with no air conditioning.
We have no freaking idea what it is. People sweat, then die. Quickly. Is it a virus? Bacteria? Something toxic everyone in the area was drinking or eating or breathing? Who knows?
All we have is speculation. Some think it might be a version of the Hanta virus, which is a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola and Lujo, but there's no proof.
#4
Germany's Mystery Disease Infecting Cattle
This disease infects cows and makes them sweat blood, and that even the lightest touch causes a horrible wound as if your fingers were made of razor blades. Despite giving the calves vitamins and blood clotting drugs, they all bleed out in a matter of days, leaving behind piles of goo and some seriously confused fulani cattle rearers. The condition apparently turns the calves' marrow into gelatin and prevents the production of platelets and white blood cells, making them unable to form clots of any kind and leaving them wide open to infection.
Infected cows have been given vaccines to prevent diseases but the trend still continued. It has spread from Germany to Belgium, acting very much like a transmittable disease, but seems to lack anything tangible like a virus to blame.
The main theory right now suggests that the baby cows are somehow developing an immunity to their own bone marrow. That's the kind of thing that just shouldn't happen in a body, like if your skull decides it wants to be "immune" from your brain.
#5
Prions
prions are the cause of several diseases, including ones which you have heard of, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease and ones you have probably never heard of, such as Kuru and Creutzfeldt (Jakob disease). Prions generally affects the central nervous system. It creates holes in the brain and turns it into Swiss cheese. Best of all, they are not destroyed by heat. Good luck with that suya!
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