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  2. Ghost sickness - Wikipedia

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    Ghost sickness is a culture-bound syndrome among some indigenous peoples in North America and Polynesian peoples in which people are preoccupied with the deceased or consumed by pathological grief.

  3. Acute radiation syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time. [1]

  4. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    A sickness which is contracted from prolonged proximity with ghosts, which causes hallucinations, fever, chills and extreme fear. Dean Winchester contracted this disease from an evil ghost he encountered and became immensely afraid of every single thing he encountered, even being afraid of a cat. The vanquishing of the ghost defeated the disease.

  5. Culture-bound syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Brain fag syndrome: West African students Dhat syndrome: India Falling-out, blacking out Southern United States and Caribbean Ghost sickness: Native American (Navajo, Muscogee/Creek) Hwabyeong: Korean: Koro: Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian populations in Southeast Asia; Assam; occasionally in the West Latah

  6. Cotard's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    As such, the Cotard's syndrome patient presents a greater incidence of brain atrophy—especially of the median frontal lobe—than do people in control groups. [18] Cotard's syndrome also has resulted from a patient's adverse physiological response to a drug (e.g., acyclovir) and to its prodrug precursor (e.g., valaciclovir).

  7. 'Ghost Boy' tells true story of waking from 12-year coma - AOL

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    In 1988, at just 12 years old, Martin Pistorius' health started to decline. He soon went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but now he's awake and telling an amazing story. Pistorius says while ...

  8. The creepiest places you can explore on Google Street View - AOL

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    Closer to home, there's a historic ghost town in California's Bodie State park. People flooded Bodie during the gold rush of the late 1800s, but when the promise of riches faded, the place found ...

  9. List of mass panic cases - Wikipedia

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    Havana syndrome (2016-2023) Idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel, ranging in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction, were first reported in 2016 by U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. Beginning in 2017, more people, including U.S. intelligence ...