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What the hell, diseases?

36 Small Facts About Microscopic Horrors We Hate to Even Think About

September 02, 2023

Hey, diseases? Chill out on being terrifying and weird! We’d like to stop thinking about our own mortality every waking moment. Sincerely, the Human Race

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Alzheimer's disease impacts memory faster than emotions. A study has shown that people who suffer from Alzheimer's continue feeling sad or happy even after they have forgotten what caused the emotion. CRACKED.COM

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The term sh!tposting can get too literal. Many people use mobile devices in the bathroom. Perhaps not coincidentally, studies have found traces of fecal matter on 1 in 6 cell phones. CRACKED.COM

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This monster lives in your cereal. Acarus siro, the flour mite, can cause allergies and carry diseases - and it has been detected in over 20% of cereal- based foodstuffs. CRACKED.COM

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This a-hole keeps crapping on your bed. Millions of dust mites live in your mattress, and each of them takes 50 dumps a day, potentially triggering your asthma. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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This f*cker can kill you. The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the carrier of dengue and yellow fever. It's found in over 100 countries. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM Shopping carts are nasty as hell. 50% of carts test positive for Е. coli, a bacterium usually found in poop. No need to add it to your shopping list. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM ? Ente Shift When did you last clean your keyboard? A regular computer keyboard can host over 3,000 germs per square inch, as opposed to about 50 on a toilet seat. Your desk can be 400 times as gross as your bathroom. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM You have eaten insects (and will again). Do you know how companies get rid of all impurities when processing food? It's simple: They don't. Each year, the average American ingests one to two pounds of bits of insects, like this grasshopper here. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Your kitchen sponge can make you sick. Nasty bugs such as Е. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, and others can survive and thrive in your sponge. Everything you wash will be contaminated. Put that thing in bleach or your microwave to sanitize it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Parasites

CRACKED.COM Acanthamoeba is hungry for your eyes. This parasite can live in the ground, in the water, in the air... everywhere. It can get to you through your contact lenses and cause blindness. Luckily, it's extremely rare. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM You really shouldn't chew your fingernails. Researchers have detected harmful bacteria on nail clippings from 24% of men and 15% of women. The worst bugs they found can cause diarrhea and vomiting. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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This could be on your child's head right now. Say hello to Pediculus humanus capitis, better known as the common head louse. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Legionella

Legionella lives in your car. This bacterium causes Legionnaires' disease, fatal in 10% of cases-and it could be swimming in your windshield wiper fluid. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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This nightmare bug will eat your brain like a zombie. Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that finds its way to your brain and destroys its tissues. It likes warm, fresh water, so be careful around water heaters and poorly maintained pools. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM Chiggers lurk in the wild. These mite larvae are like tiny velociraptors - they're ready to pounce on you and bite as soon as you venture into tall grass. They're found all over the world. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Cholera can make you produce up to 5 gallons of diarrhea per day. 5 gallons would fill this bucket to the brim. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Huntington's is a horrible hereditary disease that has no cure. It causes the progressive degradation of nerve cells in the brain, which deteriorates the physical and mental state of the patient until he eventually dies from complications. But not everything is bad news. Scientists have discovered that the defect that causes this disease is also highly toxic to tumor cells, which provides a new advantage to develop cancer treatments. This molecule is a super assassin against all tumor cells Marcus Peter, PhD. FIGHT CANCER CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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THE SPANISH FLU WASN'T SPANISH. During World War I, not one country in the Allied or Central Powers affected by the pandemic wanted to admit they were losing soldiers to it. Spain, being neutral, was the first country to report the disease, causing people to assume it was the source. CRACKED COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Measles can wipe out the immune system's information about past diseases making the infected more vulnerable to common viruses and bacteria. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM Multiple sclerosis changes your breath. Exhaled breath contains a mix of volatile organic compounds, and an MS patient's mix is very different from a healthy person's. This makes it possible to diagnose MS with, basically, a high-tech breathalyzer. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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CRACKED.COM Anorexia Nervosa can actually make a person think slower. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRACKED.COM People with a diagonal earlobe crease -also known as Frank's sign-may be at higher risk for coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Throughout history, the cure for scurvy (Vitamin C) was discovered, discredited, and discovered again. In the mid-19th century, citrus was found to be beneficial against scurvy, but when people began replacing the Mediterranean lemons with cheaper Indian limes (which contain less Vitamin C), the cure was discredited due to its ineffectiveness. It was later determined that the actual cure for scurvy is the Vitamin с contained within citrus fruits. GRACKED COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Herpes may be unpleasant, but it allows you to emerge from bubonic plague unscathed. The virus helps your body fight off Yersinia Pestis, the bacterium that cause bubonic plague. GRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRAGKED.COM In the Victorian Era, people with tuberculosis were associated with feminine beauty. The disease made victims paler and skinnier, and gave them red cheeks and lips. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRACKED.COM People suffering from iron-deficiency anemia may frequently experience fatigue and migraine. But this health condition also has its perks. Because of their bodies' lack of iron, it is harder for infections such as HIV, tuberculosis, and diarrhea to spread. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRACKED COM The Playboy Mansion hot tub was once responsible for a Legionnaire's disease outbreak affecting over 100 guests who attended a fundraising party at the mansion. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Women with rheumatoid arthritis often find that their symptoms temporarily go away while they 're pregnant, and researchers still have no idea why. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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There is an upside to malaria. Scientists have discovered that people who were infected with the malaria virus were less likely to succumb to Ebola and other deadly diseases. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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The Bubonic Plague was once used by Mongols as a biological weapon against the Italians. اولك فادس وكان ديمع ف ناصر الدين والتوناش أخليب وابو عبداء الطاى نعيم الحرب المردة وشرعول وقا منمف While besieging the fortress of Caffa, many of the Mongol soldiers became infected, and some had already died. So they gathered up all the plague-infected cadavers and catapulted them over the walls. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Most people with Parkinson's experience hypomimia, where CRACKED.COM the facial muscles stiffen, causing them to have trouble changing expression by smiling or raising their eyebrows. Along with the low voice caused by Parkinson's, one might think that they are always depressed, sad, or angry. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRAGKED.COM You're unlikely to get Hansen's disease (more commonly known as leprosy), because 95% of people are naturally immune to it. However, according to the CDC, there is a small chance you could catch it from armadillos, who are known to carry it. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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Body Myths

CRACKED.COM It's mostly people in Western countries who get heart disease, right? Nope. About 60% of all people diagnosed with heart disease live in India, which has less than 20% of the world's population. The thinking is that this could be because of an Indian genetic vulnerability to heart disease, combined with India's rising junk food consumption and stress levels. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRACKED.COM The left breast is 5% more likely to get cancer than the right. This is possibly because the left breast tends to be larger, and therefore has more tissue. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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CRACKED.COM Throughout history, syphillis went by many names in different countries, and it was mostly named after those countries' enemies. For example, the French called it the 'Spanish disease', the Italians called it the 'French disease', and the Japanese called it the 'Chinese pox'. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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GRACKED COM 2nd-century Greek physician Galen invented the term gonorrhea, which means flow of seed, because he mistakenly thought that symptoms of penile discharge were unwanted excretions of semen. GALENVS — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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