Check out 8 strange diseases

We often see introductions of some rare diseases in some news reports and even on the Internet. These diseases are strange and have unique symptoms, and many of them cannot be cured. But do you know the eight rare and strange diseases in the world? Let's take a look at it below!

1: laughter

Weird syndrome: Sudden laughter not only leads to sudden death. In the 1950s, the disease first appeared in primitive tribes in New Guinea, Africa. When patients laugh, they will unconsciously shake their limbs and cannot stop. After 1 to 3 months, their bodies began to twitch and could not stand, their eyes gradually turned into opposite eyes, and they lost their ability to speak coherently until they died. No one knew why this strange disease occurred until American doctor Kaletten GarDusai discovered that local villagers had the custom of sharing the bodies of dead relatives, which spread the virus throughout the village. Later, the local bad habit of cannibalism disappeared, and the laughter disease also died out.

2: Progeria in children strange disease: The patient's appearance and body organs age prematurely, and the average age of death is 13 years old. This is a congenital disease that develops or is damaged while the fetus is in the mother's mother. The patient's growth rate is extremely slow, resulting in unusual facial features: such as disproportionately small faces, wrinkled skin, raised eyes and thin jaws. When the patient reaches the age of 2, he will experience symptoms of hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes falling off. According to the American Rare Diseases Organization, 90% of children with progeria die from heart failure or stroke.

3: Water allergy weird disease: The patient's skin will develop a large red rash after coming into contact with water. Today, with increasingly serious environmental pollution, there are more and more allergens. Pollen allergies, seafood allergies, and nut allergies are common symptoms, but have you ever heard of anyone who is also allergic to water? It is reported that this strange disease is very rare, with only 30 people suffering from it worldwide, but it has been recognized as a disease by the American Board for Medical Examination. This disease is common in women of childbearing age and is caused by hormonal imbalance after childbirth. In April this year, a 21-year-old British mother suffered from this strange disease, which prevented her from drinking water and being exposed to the rain. She could only take a shower for 10 seconds a week and could only drink cola instead of drinking water.

4: Foreign language accent syndrome weird disease: The brain was hit, and when I woke up, I suddenly had a foreign accent full of it. It is reported that only 60 cases have been recorded worldwide. The medical community initially characterized this strange disease as a psychiatric problem, but in 2002, scientists at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom observed patients with brain damage and found that they would suddenly change their tone and accent. The first case occurred in Norway in 1941. A woman who had never been to Germany suddenly spoke in a strong German accent and was expelled from the village.​​​

5: Murbis syndrome weird disease: facial nerve paralysis, resulting in a blank face and a transfixed expression. This is a rare inherited neurological disorder in which patients are unable to control eye movements or produce facial expressions due to facial nerve paralysis. The disease can also be accompanied by abnormal development of limbs and chest. Most people with this disease have normal intelligence, but appear unfriendly due to dull expressions.

6: Weird disease of progressive muscular ossification: The patient's muscles and tendons will gradually turn into bones until the joints of the whole body cannot move. Medical experts say there is currently no cure for the disease. This strange disease is very rare, with only 600 patients worldwide. This disease gradually turns the patient's muscles into bones, and the whole body seems to have a "second skeleton". Eventually, the patient's whole joints will be unable to move, and she will become a living "statue" with blood and flesh.

7: Porphyria (the legendary "vampire disease") Strange disease: You can only live in the dark, and your whole body will get sick as soon as you see light. The disease prevents patients from producing heme, a key protein that helps produce hemoglobin, and infects the skin and nervous system, causing patients to develop abdominal pain, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. The 18th century Britain's "Crazy King" King George III was also deeply troubled by the disease. Patients develop the disease when exposed to light and can only live in the dark. When the hemoglobin is too low, they must receive blood transfusions. When the early medical community knew nothing about the disease, patients were often regarded by ignorant people as "vampires" who lived day and night.

8: Alice in Wonderland syndrome weird disease: Sick children make people around them huge and cause emotional unrest. Sick children are like Alice entering Wonderland in a fairy tale. They will have the illusion that everyone around them is "giants" and "demons", resulting in children's emotional instability and strange behavior.