Learn The Secrets And Facts About Elusive Diseases That Call The Human Body Home.

Only 5 percent of rare diseases have treatments; this is because pharmaceutical companies don't invest in research for them as it does not bring enough money.

Heart disease cost the United States about $229 billion each year. This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death globally.

Old age in itself dies not kill. It is the complications that arise from old age and that kills.

Sickle Cell Disease can be cured for certain patients with a bone marrow transplant, which involves collecting healthy cells from a donor’s bone marrow. However, a bone marrow transplant may not be the best choice for all patients.

More than 95% of newborns with Sickle Cell Disease will live to be adults thanks to advancements in medicine.

In 2023, Alzheimer’s and other dementias cost the United States around $345 billion. By 2050, it could rise to almost $1 trillion.

Women are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's than men.

About 11% of seniors in the United States have Alzheimer's.

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a super rare speech disorder that makes a person’s accent change. Only 60 people have been recorded to have the syndrome.

Aquagenic urticaria (Water Allergy) is an extremely rare condition with only about 30 recorded cases. It is the rarest allergy on the planet.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP), also known as Stoneman Syndrome, is a disorder where connective tissue such as tendons, muscles and ligaments slowly turn into bone. The progression of the disorders starts from the neck and proceeds to the lower parts of the body, and finally to the legs.

On May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization declared that Small Pox had been completely eradicated.

Penicillin was discovered by accident by Dr. Alexander Fleming in 1928 after he mistakenly left a petri dish with Staphylococcus and went on a holiday.

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is an extremely rare disease that makes a person see objects much more smaller than they are.

Stroke is the second deadliest disease in the world.

The Bubonic Plague is crowned the deadliest pandemic in human history. It killed between 75 and 200 million people or about 30 to 60 percent of Europe’s population at the time.

The Spanish Flu was the scariest disease in history as it infected over 500 million people or one-third of the human population at the time of its emergence.

Mosquitoes kill humans the most. This is due to the diseases the insect carries.

Most Schizophrenic patients prefer to be isolated and are not as violent as popularly thought.