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  2. Saint Louis encephalitis - Wikipedia

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    Saint Louis encephalitis is a disease caused by the mosquito-borne Saint Louis encephalitis virus. Saint Louis encephalitis virus is related to Japanese encephalitis virus and is a member of the family Flaviviridae. This disease mainly affects the United States, including Hawaii. [3]

  3. Saint Lucy - Wikipedia

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    While there, St. Agatha came to Lucy in a dream and told her that because of her faith, her mother would be cured and that Lucy would be the glory of Syracuse, as she was of Catania. With her mother cured, Lucy took the opportunity to persuade her mother to allow her to distribute a great part of her riches among the poor.

  4. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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    Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases – Roch; Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping – Vitus; Invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases – Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo [6] Riot, civil disorder – Andrew Corsini; Against cold and cold weather – Sebaldus

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  6. Sydenham's chorea - Wikipedia

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    Sydenham's chorea is an autoimmune disease that results from childhood infection with Group A beta-haemolytic Streptococcus. It is reported to occur in 20–30% of people with acute rheumatic fever and is one of the major criteria for it, although it sometimes occurs in isolation.

  7. Encephalitis lethargica - Wikipedia

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    Encephalitis lethargica is an atypical form of encephalitis.Also known as "sleeping sickness" or "sleepy sickness" (distinct from tsetse fly–transmitted sleeping sickness), it was first described in 1917 by neurologist Constantin von Economo [2] [3] and pathologist Jean-René Cruchet. [4]

  8. 6 Top Fifth Disease Symptoms to Look Out for During the New Surge

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    The virus is commonly known as Fifth Disease “because it was the fifth in a list of common childhood rash illnesses, which also included measles, scarlet fever, rubella and roseola,” says ...

  9. Ergotism - Wikipedia

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    Ergotism (pron. / ˈ ɜːr ɡ ə t ˌ ɪ z ə m / UR-gət-iz-əm) is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus—from the Latin clava "club" or clavus "nail" and -ceps for "head", i.e. the purple club-headed fungus—that infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ...