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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. Reported symptoms can include general weakness, loss of appetite, suffocation feelings, recurring nightmares, and a
Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. [1]
A ritual illness that only affects men is believed to be caused by a spirit called awre. This affliction presents itself by loss of appetite, nausea, and attacks from severe stomach pains. This affliction presents itself by loss of appetite, nausea, and attacks from severe stomach pains.
A disease caused by infection with an alien entity called "the colour" by characters in the story, the disease affects anything living, including plants, insects, livestock, wild animals, and humans. It causes various symptoms depending on species that ends with the victim crumbling into gray dust.
In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.
The preclinical or asymptomatic phase, also called the incubation period, averages 10–13 years, but can be as short as five and has been estimated to last as long as 50 years or more after initial exposure. [13] The clinical stage, which begins at the first onset of symptoms, lasts an average of 12 months.
Cavanagh said the illness appears to be spreading in social settings like kennel cough does, such as boarding facilities and dog parks. In most cases, the onset of pneumonia in dogs can be treated ...
It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic causes that are known.