10 mysterious diseases of today's world
 Today, doctors can cure a great number of diseases but there remain several incurable diseases. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an example, with its inexplicable symptoms. CFS patients are often bed-ridden for days at a time.
The following are the most mysterious illnesses and diseases of today's world.
Morgellons Disease : This mysterious illness has cropped up recently. Sufferers complain of intensely creepy-crawly skin and odd fibrous strands which protrude from open wounds. Some in the medical community blame the "disease" on psychotic delusion.
Mad Cow : This is one of the scientific mystery that yet discovered. It is not caused by virus, bacterium or micro-organism. Doctors
haven't discovered the causes and cures for this disease yet. The disease spreads due to the eating infectious beef.
Schizophrenia: Experts consider this the most puzzling of mental disorders, one which robs the sufferer of the ability to logically distinguish between reality and fantasy. Each patient has very different symptoms, including delusions, hallucinations , disorganized speech which is not relevant with the situation, lack of motivation or emotion. Characteristic changes, social resistance attitude maybe the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Autoimmune Disorders: This is a disease that treats the body's organs and normal functions as enemy invaders. Lupus is a kind of the above disease. Many patients of Lupus suffer from arthritis.
Pica : People diagnosed with Pica always have an insatiable urge to eat non-food substances like dirt, paper, glue and clay, which provide no nutrition for the body but cause harm to health. Though this disease is believed to be linked with mineral deficiency, health experts have found no real cause and no cure for the peculiar disorder.
Bird Flu : Discovered in South East Asia in 2003, bird flu has become human's fear because there has been no effective cure and prevention. Death rates for human infected are around 50 percent but, so far, humans have been infected mostly by direct handling with infected birds. Health official fear the variant of H5N1 virus can be transmitted between humans.
The Common Cold : You should be amazed when seeing this disease appeared in this category. However, even with an estimated one billion cases in the United States every year, doctors still know very little about the nose-running, cough-inducing cold. Its root causes can be numbered in the hundreds.
Alzheimer's Disease: Not to be confused with the forgetfulness, which happens to most people in the world every year. Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disorder that manifests differently in each of its sufferers. The exact cause is not understood and it cannot be effectively treated.
AIDS: Twenty-five years since the disease was first identified in the world, there is still no cure for it. HIV/ AIDS remains among the world's most potent killers, especially in developing countries.
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