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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Ideally, the trump virus reverses the genetic changes caused by the wild card virus, transforming a wild carder back into a normal person. The trump virus is only successful in about 24% of attempts. It doesn't work at all 47% of the time, and an appalling 29% of the time, it outright kills the patient.

  3. List of eponymous diseases - Wikipedia

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    An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...

  4. List of deprecated terms for diseases - Wikipedia

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    Decompression sickness [2] Referred to the associated breathing issues of decompression illness. Consumption: Tuberculosis [5] So-called due to the wasting that occurs in the late stages of infection. Dandy fever: Dengue fever [4] A reference to the mincing walk adopted by those affected. Dropsy: Edema [6] Dum-dum fever: Leishmaniasis [7]

  5. Norovirus Is Spreading Again—Can You Get It Twice? Experts ...

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    Unfortunately, as with many viruses, norovirus has multiple strains. Which makes the possibility of getting it more than once real. Of course, the details are a little more complicated.

  6. Common cold - Wikipedia

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    The common cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract which can be caused by many different viruses. The most commonly implicated is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes. [33] Other commonly implicated viruses include coronaviruses, adenoviruses, enteroviruses, parainfluenza and RSV. [34]

  7. What is HMPV? Here's what you need to know as virus cases ...

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    Avoid close contact with people who are sick. For people who have cold-like symptoms, the CDC also recommended: Covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing.

  8. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 2,035 [284] [285] [286] 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic: 2015–2016 Worldwide Zika virus: 53 [287] 2016 Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo yellow fever outbreak: 2016 Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo: Yellow fever: 498 (377 in Angola, 121 in Congo) [288] 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak: 2016 ...

  9. 5 cancer types where screenings save the most lives - AOL

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    Over a 45-years span — between 1975 and 2020 — improvements in cancer screenings and prevention strategies have reduced deaths from five common cancers more than any advances in treatments ...