[Closed] What's your favorite infectious disease?

The Yawn virus. The only disease known to be transmitted by sight only. Beauty in that power.

Hep C. More transmissible than HIV, plus it kept me in a job for a long time.

The common cold. Incureable, highly contagious, and comedy amounts of green sticky snot. Fan-tas-tic!

yep another vote for ebola. Anything that turns your organs to mush and allows you to crap them out deserves admiration.

I like elephatitist.

"elephatitist"

a disease so rare even google hasn't heard of it.

Well Niche.

[i]elephatitist[/i]

that's meant to be [i]elephantiasis[/i], right? 😉

I like the thing that "Tree Man" has that makes him look like bark. Is it infectious?

Takes camo to a whole new level...

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Stoner - Member
The Yawn virus. The only disease known to be transmitted by sight only. Beauty in that power.

That is indeed a wondrous thing. Totally infectious when you see someone else yawn.

Odd thing is, just typing this has made me yawn as well.....

Infectious even over the interweb?

Bet that guy above wouldn't mess around on aleighs mate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantiasis

Don't know how to do the clicky thing! Its caused by a worm playing havoc with the immune system. I also quite like the trypansome bugs, also called kissing bugs as they kiss (rather they bite) men in the middle of the night!

those are warts Crayola.

...and warts are usually caused by viruses.

Prion diseases (cjd, mad cow, scrapie)are pretty interesting if only because they're not viral or bacterial

Ebola is fascinating & terrifying

Read this

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i think my fav has to:
[b]Rabies[/b]

very nasty,
very under-rated in this country
ebola is pretty cool aswell I'll let you have that

I like diseases that 'Do exactly what they say on the tin'

Like the winter vomiting virus. That comes in winter and makes you vomit.

Or 'slapped cheek' disease - characterised by bright red cheeks.

leishmaniasis
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ben fogle has it

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

And that bloke's bark is worse than his bite.

polio - I had it when I was 8, but after 6 weeks in hospital and 6 months of physio I was completely unscathed 🙂

[b]crayola [/b]that treeman is utterly gross 🙁 Yet the bloke doesn't look too bothered ...

Flu.

It's like that nutter in the corner of the world's pub. Most of the time it's just unpleasant, laying people out for a couple of days.

Then, once in a while it goes berserk and kills millions of people. It's due for another episode soon.

conjunctivitis was good for me the other day: ward manager got a bit spooked and sent me home for the afternoon as an 'infection control risk'. Yay!

Is there such a disease that it's cool to admit you've had it, or got it?

Like when you're at a family occasion, and you're chatting to the cousin you actually fancy and would take the risk of social condemnation and genetically disadvantaged kids and you could say "check me out barbara, this year I've had xxx, fancy getting jiggy on grannies bed?"

What a strange world you live in, PK....

pk-ripper - Member
....... and you're chatting to the cousin you actually fancy and would take the risk of social condemnation and genetically disadvantaged kids.....

haha
blimey that's a big risk assessment you've already taken there
😀

i think my fav has to:
Rabies

very nasty,
very under-rated in this country

+1
Indeed, growing up in Ireland, we used to have posters at part entries saying "RABIES KILLS", then a picture of someone foaming at the mouth, obviously in major distress, and then underneath in big red letters "AGONISINGLY". I swear we all grew up in fear of it sooo much. And I believe, it still does kill agonisingly doesn't it?

I await the next flu pandemic.

Last proper one (Spanish flu - 1918) killed 40 million people!

'pparently its overdue...

What if there was an ebola pandemic and people started to explode and turn to bleeding jelly bodies in the street?