10 incurable diseases [Part 3]

4. Flu

10 incurable diseases - Flu or influenza is an acute viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract. Symptoms can include fever, kedingingan, muscle pain, accompanied by pain in the head and chest.

Flu can be caused by several strains of the virus, namely type A, B, and C. A virus causes flu epidemic, B spread the disease in a more narrow scale, smentara C does not really affect humans. But in some cases, the virus evolved and become a new type and can hardly beat the human immune system. For example, bird flu or swine flu that has killed people in a short time.


5. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

His name is quite difficult to pronounce and deadly nature. This disease attacks the nervous system in one in a million people in the world. However, in certain populations, the risk of disease is higher, like the Jews of Libya.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease usually affects adults aged 40-70 years, although young people can also be affected panyakit this. Symptoms usually affect patient behavior. Within a few months, followed by dementia come to attack blurred vision and difficulty moving.

The disease was first discovered in 1920 and is similar to kuru or behavioral disorders that attack humans and scrapie sheep. These three diseases are equally made in the brain tissue has a hole so given the designation transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

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