Know Any Juicy Diseases?
<div class="IPBDescription">Well... maybe not juicy...</div> I have to do a short essay on a disease for biology class, any disease. So, know any good(<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->) ones? I know there's a LOT but any suggestions? Something interesting, different. The rarer the better. Mental is also a plus. Sharing your experiences with a particular disease would also be helpful.
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Something about convulsing so bad you crap your own intestines out.
Something to do with undercooked food?
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Your spleen clots into a huge blood clot - your organs begin to liquify as a virus attempts to literally convert your body into the virus. Your liver becomes a semi-clear jelly. Inside your stomach, a virus attacks the lining and it peels away. It festers in there, growing in the cells in small black inclusion bodies of pure viral doom. In your intestines, the same thing happens, and it peels away into layers inside of you. After your spleen clotted up and used all your platelets, you begin to bleed a little bit. Any small incision will not stop bleeding. You begin vomitting up blood, including bits and pieces of your esophagus, stomach, and tongue. You begin running a fever and your brain gets slowly destroyed by it. Your eyes are bloodshot and possibly bleeding on the inside. Your entire body, still functioning to the very end, is filling with blood. Finally, just before your body fails from the lack of functioning organs, you 'bleed out', going into a massive siezure, and your continue vomiting up blood, and your bowels expel their contents: Muscular action causes you to literally **** out your own intestines. Everything inside of you has turned to soup. It's a 'miracle' that you've even survived as long as you have. In your siezure, you spray blood all around you, infecting even more people, and if you're one of the "lucky" ones, one-in-ten, you survive the ordeal before you 'bleed out', at the hands of the deadliest virus known to man.
<Insert dramatic pause here>
Ebola.
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Something about convulsing so bad you crap your own intestines out.
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Mmm sounds like Ebola. It is a good choice to write. The problem is it's really scary.
The virus literally pokes so many microscopic holes into your body you start to bleed to death all over, inside and out, untii you die.
Oh yes, and it also loosens tissue bonds, meaning your bowel = pwned.
Well, you could write about something else that's less scary, like bird flu (H5N1 in particular) and SARS.
How about zombodisease?
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as for juicy diseases, the bubonic plague is juicy, in that the buboes that form in the lymph nodes under your arms and in other places are very juicy indeed.
We had some fun testing it at Fort Belvoir (Army research lab) at the time because my hands were just above room temperature and were nearly invisible to the IR cameras they were demo-ing.
It is also quite fun to shake hands with someone during those periods because my hands feel like they had been in the freezer. I have had a few people either completely retract their hand or get a really weird look on their face.
We had some fun testing it at Fort Belvoir (Army research lab) at the time because my hands were just above room temperature and were nearly invisible to the IR cameras they were demo-ing.
It is also quite fun to shake hands with someone during those periods because my hands feel like they had been in the freezer. I have had a few people either completely retract their hand or get a really weird look on their face. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow, cool....
That would just rule!
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Your spleen clots into a huge blood clot - your organs begin to liquify as a virus attempts to literally convert your body into the virus. Your liver becomes a semi-clear jelly. Inside your stomach, a virus attacks the lining and it peels away. It festers in there, growing in the cells in small black inclusion bodies of pure viral doom. In your intestines, the same thing happens, and it peels away into layers inside of you. After your spleen clotted up and used all your platelets, you begin to bleed a little bit. Any small incision will not stop bleeding. You begin vomitting up blood, including bits and pieces of your esophagus, stomach, and tongue. You begin running a fever and your brain gets slowly destroyed by it. Your eyes are bloodshot and possibly bleeding on the inside. Your entire body, still functioning to the very end, is filling with blood. Finally, just before your body fails from the lack of functioning organs, you 'bleed out', going into a massive siezure, and your continue vomiting up blood, and your bowels expel their contents: Muscular action causes you to literally **** out your own intestines. Everything inside of you has turned to soup. It's a 'miracle' that you've even survived as long as you have. In your siezure, you spray blood all around you, infecting even more people, and if you're one of the "lucky" ones, one-in-ten, you survive the ordeal before you 'bleed out', at the hands of the deadliest virus known to man.
<Insert dramatic pause here>
Ebola.
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Well, it's either a really fugged up disease, or your letting a Khorne Bloodthirster take over your body. Anyhow, yeah that's really gruesome...but for some reason I had this mental image of a guy, spinning around in circles with blood spraying out both ends... I think I need to see a doctor.
We had some fun testing it at Fort Belvoir (Army research lab) at the time because my hands were just above room temperature and were nearly invisible to the IR cameras they were demo-ing.
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Wow, cool....
That would just rule!
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Just cold, so very cold. I typically kept my dorm room at 80-85 degrees. People thought I was nuts and felt like walking into a furnace. Now that I have to pay for the heat since I graduated I just took to constantly wearing gloves but that doesn't really work as you need to have body heat to begin with to warm the gloves for them to work.
I just found a pair of nice leather gloves that fit me like a second skin. Which helps because I have to be able to type with them on and I wear them constantly. In addition, the gloves keep me from giving people the feeling of a cold-blooded handshake. It saves me a lot of weird looks and reactions. Though I often have to explain why I am wearing gloves all the time.
WARNING, the pictures about this disease are so gruesome they may make you want to vomit before you can close the browser window, so i dont reccomend looking up anything about harlequinn babies.
Basically the skin grows too fast or too slow and becomes plates of armor instead of foldable floppy material, leading to giant cracks where there should be creases, and it stretches so hard that the body looks entirely mutilated, babies tend to suffocate due to the inability to raise and lower the lung cavity normally.
It is actually the reason I had to leave the military. The sensitivty means I have to avoid bright lights by wearing sunglasses or I end up with a migraine. To compensate I altered my work schedule so I get in before sunrise and leave after sunset. Thankfully my area is overcast 78% of the time which helps a lot.
All in all, of any malady one could suffer from, These two are probably one of the easiest to live with and I am thankful for that. In fact, it can be quite fun to watch people's expressions and reactions to my clothing or my touch.
Chickenpox/Shingles too, because of the interrelation.
Another classic could be the flu virus.
So many choices. Why I did virology in university, hehe.
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
It's pretty juicy, causes yer genitals to leak pus and whatnot.
I just KNEW someone was going to google it. Thanks for being my guinea pig. Now I KNOW better than to try it for myself... Phew...
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I just KNEW someone was going to google it. Thanks for being my guinea pig. Now I KNOW better than to try it for myself... Phew...
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I just KNEW someone was going to google it. Thanks for being my guinea pig. Now I KNOW better than to try it for myself... Phew...
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I'll be damned if I ever want to see those fish-baby things again.
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I think this pretty much sums up my feelings about this thread....
I just KNEW someone was going to google it. Thanks for being my guinea pig. Now I KNOW better than to try it for myself... Phew...
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[QUOTE=ThE HeRo,Nov 18 2004, 09:14 PM][QUOTE=Cold-NiTe,Nov 18 2004, 08:27 PM] [QUOTE=chosen chaos,Nov 18 2004, 06:29 PM] holy **** the Harlequinn Icthyotosis babys are really creepy if you dont belive me go to google and look up harlquin babys [/QUOTE]
I just KNEW someone was going to google it. Thanks for being my guinea pig. Now I KNOW better than to try it for myself... Phew...
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oh.. my... god...
its the eyes that do it for me.
omg and thats why Ill never be a doctor...
Seeing people with missing limbs from car wreaks or blown off faces from the occassional unfortunate suicide is one thing but omg wow.
On a more positive note i saw some other disease that was basicaly the same thing but on a much less severe scale as in only on certain places of the body or not quite as noticable. maybe could be considered a really super bad rash. pretty bad but no where near like that baby pic.
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back on topic
How about Smallpox.
one might say its a deadly nasty disease that has been erradicated from the face of the earth. There are only 2 known places (that we know of <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) on Earth that still have samples of it kept alive in very secure labs. One in the US the other in Russia.
Link to story please?
The harlequin babies are pretty cool. The correct term for the condition is "harlequin ichthyosis". They're kind of weird as a baby coming out of a woman, but I can imagine a fully grown army of them running around like supermonsters, doing my bidding.. Awesome. The extent that variations can and do occur in normal human conditions is amazing.
Edit: Here's a link. Probably not the best artical, but hey, here it is.
<a href='http://www.10news.com/health/3919722/detail.html' target='_blank'>http://www.10news.com/health/3919722/detail.html</a>
Asperger's Disorder -
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder. Both Asperger's Disorder and Autistic Disorder are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category. This larger category is called either Autistic Spectrum Disorders, mostly in European countries, or Pervasive Developmental Disorders ("PDD"), in the United States. In Asperger's Disorder, affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. Though grammatical, their speech is peculiar due to abnormalities of inflection and a repetitive pattern. Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a circumscribed area of interest which usually leaves no space for more age appropriate, common interests. Some examples are cars, trains, French Literature, door knobs, hinges, cappucino, meteorology, astronomy or history. The name "Asperger" comes from Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician who first described the syndrome in 1944. An excellent translation of Dr. Asperger's original paper is provided by Dr. Uta Frith in her Autism and Asperger Syndrome.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->