Development of modern medicine during the second half of XX century changed the course in treating most diseases. Discovery of penicillin and other medications saved the lives of millions of people and pointed the new way towards the development of medicine. Revolutionary changes are happening in the field of transplantation and possibility of changing certain organs.
Great advance is made in oncology. 50 years ago most of these disease was terminal and lead the patient straight to death. Today’s way of treatment of such diseases enables the patient to overcome these vicious diseases or to extend for up to several years. Although modern medicine found cures for treating many diseases =, modern way of life brought up new RARE AND DIFFICULT DISEASES, for which the cure is not known even today. Many of those diseases killed millions of people all over the world, and are still waiting to be cured. Which are those diseases and is there a chance for a cure?
10ONDINE´S CURSE
A disease takes away the ability to breathe unconsciously. Victims have to use ventilation system while asleep otherwise their body, would stop breathing.
09LIPODYSTROPHY
It is genetic disease that gets rid of fatty tissue underneath the skin. This has the effect of aging the person making a teenager look middle aged.
08ALZHEIMER´S DISEASE
Alzheimer´s disease is progressive disease which usually affects people over 65 years and causes dementia. Sufferers lose their memory and ability to perform tasks and exhibit personality changes.
07LOU GEHRIG´S DISEASE / MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE
It´s causes progressive weakness and muscle atrophy. The most famous case is Stephen Hawking who at 21 was given a life expectancy of two years. He is now 71.
06LESCH-NYHAN SYNDROME
Occurring almost exclusively in males it causes arthritis and abnormal muscle movements. Mental retardation also makes self-mutilation a problem.
05BRAINED DIARRHEA
Patients experience 10-20 episodes of explosive diarrhea as well as nausea and vomiting. It has no cure and can lose for months or even year.
04COCOIDIOIDOMYCOSIS
Caused by breathing in fungal spares, 1 in 20 get pneumonia and for 1 percent it spreads to the brain. Up to 150.000 Americans have it and 2 out of 3 infected shows no symptoms.
03EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
A 2002 outbreak in Gabon had a 90percent mortality rate. It can cause fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and internal and external bleeding to shock or argon failure.
02HIV / AIDS
Aids stop the immune system from reacting to infections. There are over 35 million sufferers. Without treatment overage survival time for someone with HIV is 10 years.
01FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA
The “worst disease you can get”, a genetic mutation normally arising in middle aged people that prevents sleep. Leads to sweating, loss of co-ordination and lose of speech skills, before the victim falls into coma and die.