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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    A fictional disease invented by Roald Dahl's friend Thwaites during their schooldays in Llandaff. Thwaites made this up to amuse Roald and the other friends, but he says his dad told him about the disease, which is apparently contracted from eating liquorice bootlaces. Thwaites says that the bootlaces actually have rat's blood rather than ...

  3. Category:Fictional diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictional diseases and disorders" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Category:Fiction about diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Fictional diseases and disorders (5 C, 23 P) Novels about diseases and disorders (11 C, 32 P) Short stories about diseases and disorders (2 C, 2 P) C.

  5. Disease in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Diseases, both real and fictional, play a significant role in fiction, with certain diseases like Huntington's disease and tuberculosis appearing in many books and films. Pandemic plagues threatening all human life, such as The Andromeda Strain , are among the many fictional diseases described in literature and film.

  6. Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    List of childhood diseases and disorders; List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases - diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals ...

  7. Here's why it could be a bad summer for disease-spreading ...

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    At least 15 species of ticks occur in Illinois, but only a few are likely to be encountered by people, says the Illinois Department of Public Health: American dog tick

  8. Category:Fictional viruses - Wikipedia

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  9. Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was a Medical Mystery. A Failure of ...

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    Gypsy Rose, who was born in 1991, was a baby when Dee Dee claimed her daughter had sleep apnea. “When Gypsy was 8 years old,” Biography reports, “Dee Dee described her as suffering from ...