Know Any Juicy Diseases?

Banji · November 2004

<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(<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />) 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.

RustySpoon · November 2004

What was this disease that was recently brought up here on the boards?
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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RaVe · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RustySpoon @ Nov 18 2004, 09:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> What was this disease that was recently brought up here on the boards?
Something about convulsing so bad you crap your own intestines out.

Something to do with undercooked food?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
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.

Dorian_Gray · November 2004

Try any of the ones caused by <i>Y. Pestis</i>. They include the ever popular Bubonic Plague (wiped out half of Europe in the middle ages) and the nice and lethal Pneumonic plague (when it infects your lungs, has a mortality rate of 100%). They're also fairly disgusting. I had to do a similar project last year and I ended up doing Ebola HF and Marburg HF since they're very similar, and someone else did the plagues, so I can guarantee you that you'll have no shortage of things to write about.

UZi · November 2004

Headcrab attachment and Chestbuster?

How about zombodisease?

Cold_NiTe · November 2004

Wow, never thought I'd see the day when someone described a disease as <i>juicy</i>.

0______0

SkinnY · November 2004

Let's not forget Agent smith... the worse virus that has ever strucked humankind...

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

QwiXXeR · November 2004

... That is SERIOUSLY!! RUFF!!!

DiscoZombie · November 2004

That sig is pretty, but I'm not sure it's QUITE big enough... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

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.

TheWizard · November 2004

My external body temperature is often no higher than room temperature. This is because the capillaries in my skin react more quickly to colder temperatures and contract to reduce the heat loss from my body. Everyone's body does this. Mine just does it to a greater extreme.

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.

RustySpoon · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (wizard@psu @ Nov 18 2004, 01:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> My external body temperature is often no higher than room temperature. This is because the capillaries in my skin react more quickly to colder temperatures and contract to reduce the heat loss from my body. Everyone's body does this. Mine just does it to a greater extreme.

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.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Wow, cool....
That would just rule!

I dont see it as a Juicy disease though <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

cshank4 · November 2004

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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.

TheWizard · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RustySpoon @ Nov 18 2004, 01:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (wizard@psu @ Nov 18 2004, 01:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> My external body temperature is often no higher than room temperature. This is because the capillaries in my skin react more quickly to colder temperatures and contract to reduce the heat loss from my body. Everyone's body does this. Mine just does it to a greater extreme.

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. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Wow, cool....
That would just rule!

I dont see it as a Juicy disease though <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

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.

Zel · November 2004

speaking of horrible diseases, there was an article on Fark.com the other day about a guy who has survived 18 years with Harlequinn Icthyotosis(sp?), and no one has ever been known to survive past birth with a skin disease as horrible as that.

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.

TheWizard · November 2004

It can be quite frustrating at times as I also typically wear glare reducing sunglasses. I have an odd light shade of eye color (yellow&green) and I am color blind. This makes my eyes very light sensitive. Consequently I pretty much always wear dark sunglasses and my coat and leather gloves. So if you see me, no I am not trying for the Goth look, its just what keeps me warm and comfortable.

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.

Necrosis · November 2004

Syphilis is quite interesting as it can be hard to diagnose.

Chickenpox/Shingles too, because of the interrelation.

Another classic could be the flu virus.

So many choices. Why I did virology in university, hehe.

chosen_chaos · November 2004

holy **** the Harlequinn Icthyotosis babys are really creepy if you dont belive me go to google and look up harlquin babys

Gwahir · November 2004

do genetic disorders count?

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease)

Perdition · November 2004

Do your report over gonorrhea. I did a report over that for a health class...the teacher loved it.

It's pretty juicy, causes yer genitals to leak pus and whatnot.

Petco · November 2004

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder count?

Cold_NiTe · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (chosen chaos @ Nov 18 2004, 06:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> holy **** the Harlequinn Icthyotosis babys are really creepy if you dont belive me go to google and look up harlquin babys </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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...
<span style='color:red'>
OOOH **** I DID IT ANYWAY. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME.

aaaahhhhhhggg.
</span>

ThE_HeRo · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Nov 18 2004, 08:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (chosen chaos @ Nov 18 2004, 06:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> holy **** the Harlequinn Icthyotosis babys are really creepy if you dont belive me go to google and look up harlquin babys </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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...
<span style='color:red'>
OOOH **** I DID IT ANYWAY. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME.

aaaahhhhhhggg.
</span>  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
tool <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Cold_NiTe · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ThE HeRo @ Nov 18 2004, 09:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Nov 18 2004, 08:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (chosen chaos @ Nov 18 2004, 06:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> holy **** the Harlequinn Icthyotosis babys are really creepy if you dont belive me go to google and look up harlquin babys </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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...
<span style='color:red'>
OOOH **** I DID IT ANYWAY. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME.

aaaahhhhhhggg.
</span> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
tool <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I'll be damned if I ever want to see those fish-baby things again.

Sky · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Nov 18 2004, 09:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Wow, never thought I'd see the day when someone described a disease as <i>juicy</i>.

0______0  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I think this pretty much sums up my feelings about this thread....

kuperaye · November 2004

mouth herpes

Perdition · November 2004

Mmm, herpes of the mouth. My second favorite disease, aside from cancer of the big toenail.

2Dd · November 2004

............YYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHH GOOD GAWD LYCANTHROPY *tremble* YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHH *many hours later* fish babies not gonna get me OH LORD not gonna get me not gonna get me....

CplDavis · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ThE HeRo @ Nov 18 2004, 09:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> [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...
<span style='color:red'>
OOOH **** I DID IT ANYWAY. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME.

aaaahhhhhhggg.
</span> [/QUOTE]
tool <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
[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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OOOH **** I DID IT ANYWAY. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME.

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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.

It looked the person had carapace. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

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 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /> ) on Earth that still have samples of it kept alive in very secure labs. One in the US the other in Russia.

Mantrid · November 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Nov 18 2004, 11:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> speaking of horrible diseases, there was an article on Fark.com the other day about a guy who has survived 18 years with Harlequinn Icthyotosis(sp?), and no one has ever been known to survive past birth with a skin disease as horrible as that.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Link to story please?

eediot · November 2004

The ebola virus is very scary, yes. The bubonic plague is interesting, but i believe it was particularly effective mostly because of the poor living conditions that everyone endured.

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>

Delarosa · November 2004

don't know if it's too late... or qualifies... but my childhood friend suffers from this...and well, when ever i need a flashback to what i did as a child, i look at him because he's still doing those things (he never matured past puberty, and we are both 20)

Asperger's Disorder -
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>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.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

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