The most horrible disease

[Skeleon]

Locked-in syndrome.

 

[PyroZombie]

I'm surprised no one said madness yet.

 

[Cheesebob]

Huntingtons.

that's not really a disease though, it's a genetic disorder. although i will agree with you that it is horrible.

Neither is Cancer but no one said anything about it

 

[bluepilot]

I think that flesh-eating bacteria is the worst disease you can get.

It starts off as a small mole or can be the result of sugery and then starts breaking down your tissue.

It is immune to all known anti-biotics so the only way to cure it is to cut away at the infected tissue and then amputate is necessary or possible.

Even your you survive this, you might not really want to...

 

[Pendragon9]

Ignorance. Not only does it spread, not only is every person born with it, but it can even lead to other horrible diseases.

 

[DukeisClay]

I'd hate to get Updoc...

 

[Mockingjay]

Any of these. http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/the-most-horrible-diseases-ever-to-tremble-the-world/

Some of them are shocking.

Edit: If you're of a sensitive nature I do not reccommend looking at these images.

I feel like ill go to hell for laughing at some but"penis growing on stomch sindrome blow it"

That's somewhat messed up xD some of them made me feel sick.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Leukimia, horrible to see a little kid partially dying and losing all his hair. Alzheimers, makes you feel sorry for old people who are already half dead inside because maybe old peoples homes aren't the best way of treating people who deserve respect and forgetting important things in your life isn't very nice. And the Plague, wiping out about lots of % of population.

 

[Bigeyez]

Ebola is a horrible disease. Only curable if given treatment four days after first symptons. It is highly infectious. Symptoms are varied and often appear suddenly. Initial symptoms include high fever, severe headache, muscle, joint, or abdominal pain, severe weakness, exhaustion, sore throat, nausea, dizziness, internal and external bleeding. Before an outbreak is suspected, these early symptoms are easily mistaken for malaria, typhoid fever, dysentery, influenza, or various bacterial infections, which are all far more common and reliably less fatal. Ebola may progress to cause more serious symptoms, such as diarrhea, dark or bloody feces, vomiting blood, red eyes due to distension and hemorrhage. Thank you wikipedia.

This.

 

[Magnatek]

I'd hate to get Updoc...

Someone had to say that, didn't they? Anyway, has anyone here ever seen the movie (or read the book), "Freak the Mighty"? In the movie, there was a kid with a particular condition. His skin stopped growing, but the rest of his body (bones, muscles, other organs(yes, skin is an organ)) did not follow suit. They kept growing, and there was nothing that could be done about it. This is truly a horrible disease. I don't know the name.

 

[Cheesezorz]

Ebola is kinda nasty. But I don't think it's the most terrible, though.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

And the Plague, wiping out about lots of % of population.

The Black Death wasn't actually that bad. Remember the society it did most damage to was one without even the most basic understanding of medical science or hygiene. The Black Death is not a disease that would have caused the damage it did in a modern nation, most likely it is one that could have been stopped by anti-biotics and basic personal hygiene. As it happened it stuck a society who sincerely believed that the disease was anything from: Caused by the Jews poisoning the wells to being God's punishment for things like, not praying enough and consorting with foreigners. All over Europe gangs of people would wander from town to town whipping themselves and praying with the belief it would prevent the pestience. They probably spread the plague even faster than it would have otherwise.

The Black Death of the fourteenth century was also preceeded by two fairly extensive famines, themselves responsible for a great deal of death. This was also a society with a life expectancy of less than 40 years. (London had a life expectancy worse than many modern third world countries right up untill the 20th century)

 

[esperandote]

artritis, in an advanced stage

 

[fletch_talon]

Alzheimers and/or whatever that sleeping disease is, the one transferable by the tsitsi fly or whatever its called.

I'm not sure why the second one freaks me out, as you'd assume itd be relatively painless to just sleep and never wake up, but it scares me.

However further research assures me that that's not how the disease works and my fear of it is more justifiable than I thought. Dunno where I got my initial impressions, I guess the name just threw me.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Complete paralysis. To be entombed in your own body, with nobody to talk, nobody to understand, and nothing meaningful in your life. Life just gets pointless by that.

Oh, and AIDS.

 

[Harrow]

Stupidity. It killed two of my great grandparents for sure, and possibly another two. You see, the doctors at the local hospital are idiots. One great granpa of mine they thought had a bladder inffection. It turned out to be a galbladder infection. One of my great grandma's they gave some variety of rat poisen that, in small doses and while monitering the patient, does help with some conditions. They told her the wrong amount to take (and was too old to be able to remember how much and when on her own anyway) and didn't moniter her. My other two great grandparents died at the local hospital after falling, and so I'm not sure if there was anything that could have been done, but I know if there was, the doctors there sure as hell weren't the ones who would've gotten it right. I'm not the only one. Talk to amlost anyone at my school and they will tell you of a family member of theirs who died because of malpractice at the local hospital. I'm amazed they haven't been sued out of business.

But it's not anything you mentioned on the list so... African rabies

 

[Shapsters]

Alzheimer's is definitely high on the list, it is so horrible the way the mind slowly disintegrates, watching your loved ones slowly forget until everything is complete nonsense... then they die.

Also, in the 80's HIV/AIDS was definitely the worst, so many people died and no one knew what was killing them. Has anyone seen And The Band Played On? Its a good movie.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Multiple Sclerosis has got to be up there somewhere.

 

[magnuslion]

HIV/Aids easily, you die a slow painful death and it's really easy to obtain, I have two friends who currently suffer from HIV so they still have a very slim chance, but the other two have aids and they're gone

and don't forget super-aids. you can get that just from thinking about kissing someone.
((cookie for refference))

 

[kateatsmouse]

I can't name a specific disease, but anyone that shuts down verbal and limb function while leaving thought process untouched would be horrible to me.