What's your favourite disease?

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Mine's monkeypox, because it's rarely fatal and sounds exotic enough to make your friends envious.

― Trevor, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disease? What's that?

― Pete, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the jigsaw disease from an old judge dredd story was ok.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Japanese Encephalytis (sp?) - don't you have to have rats brains injected to prevent catching it?

― Jonnie, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My body's seems to be permanent low-level cold symptoms else why would it constantly entertain them, eh? Damn my sinuses which made my teeth ache through Mulholland Dr.

― Emma, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm sure if you'd asked for the top 5 disease of 2001 we'd end up with a much longer thread.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm an expert on plague, I must confess.

― DG, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What was the jigsaw disease, Alan? I remember the Fungus disease, where you got mutant funghi sprouting up all over your body. That was fun, but then when the spores burst it kills you, which isn't so fun.

― Trevor, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What was the jigsaw disease, Alan? I remember the Fungus disease, where you got mutant funghi sprouting up all over your body. That was fun. But then when the spores burst it killed you, which wasn't so fun.

The top diseases of 2001 were anthrax, foot & mouth, and media frenzy.

― Trevor, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jigsaw disease = bits of your body vanish in jigsaw shapes. Drawn by Bolland and only JD story on which his stuff actually worked.

― Tom, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmm, the only googled ref i can see is to a JD story in 95, but i'm POSITIVE it was in a v earlier story, Cursed Earth? certainly pre- apocalypse war.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was in the 'Judge Child' saga, you mentalists.

― DG, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no, you MENTALIST! nyah :-p

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

scrofula sounds like the rudest disease!

― katie, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll get you yet, you cheeky chappie.

― DG, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The idea of crabs is bemusing. The reality, no doubt, is not.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's got to be encephalitis lethargica.

― alix, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the andromeda strain had the best soundtrack of any disease; anthrax decidedly didn't ("i'm the man"?!).

― your null fame, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crabs would only be funny if they were the size of a housecat.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boogie Disease. John Lee Hooker.

― Hank, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, I don't really have a favourite disease...but my favourite title of a medical journal article is: Rachman S. - Melville's Pierre and nervous exhaustion; or "the vacant whirlingness of the bewilderingness". [Biography. Historical Article. Journal Article] Literature & Medicine. 16(2):226- 49, 1997 Fall.

It's about shell shock and Neurasthenia.

― jel, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my favorite disease is hepatitis C, cuz i have it- its hanging out and having a party inside my liver, fucking shit up, so i might as well embrace it.

― gabe, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

there's something called nonerosive reflux disease, ie NERD.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

Namewise I have three that come to mind:

The actually-quite-serious complication of Diabetes (more often Type II), the Hyper-Osmotic Non-Ketoacidotic Coma, or HONK-C.

The mostly-rabbit-infecting but occasionally zoonotic infection Snuffles.

The cutaneous Pseudomonas infection that can occur in warm, improperly cleaned water, Hot Tub Folliculitis.

As far as what my actual favorite disease to observe and study and treat is, it varies. Past contenders include Guillain-Barre, Parkinson's, and Multiple System Atrophy.

― C-L, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

Snuffles!

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

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― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

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