There are some popular diseases and conditions distributed over the internet, but they do not exist in the real world. Most of them are first recognized in movies and books. Some of them are also recognized from anime, manga, games, and other sources.
Today we’ll focus on the top 5 famous fictional diseases. Keep reading, you may find some of your feared diseases in this list.
Gray Brittle Death
The disease is caused by a virus with an alien entity known as “The color” by the story’s protagonists, and it affects everything living, including plants, insects, livestock, wild animals, and humans. Plant symptoms usually involve stunting or abnormally large growth with much tasteless fruit, abnormally shaped flowers, and leaves, glowing in the dark with an indescribable pigment, and finally losing their leaves and decaying to gray dust. Insects become unusually bloated and shaped before crumbling into grey dust.
Hogs grow unusually large with tasteless meat before rotting energy and crumbling to grey dust, whereas cattle and horses exhibit strange behavior before crumbling to grey powder. The disease affects “strange footprints in the snow” in some animals in the wild that are identifiable as known animal species but are off in anatomy and behavioral patterns, and rabbits have unusually long strides. In humans, the disease causes victims to gradually go insane, seeing things that are not there, talking incoherently, suffering memory loss, and eventually walking on all fours.
The victim then begins to glow in the dark with an indescribable color, becoming weak and thin before crumbling to grey dust.
Hanahaki Disease
This is a fictional love disease first recognized in a manga named “hanahaki otome”.
If left untreated, the victim of unrequited or one-sided love usually starts to vomit or cough up the petals and flowers of a flowering plant growing in their lungs, which will keep growing large enough to make respiration impossible. There is no set time for how long this disease will last, but it could last from 2 weeks to 3 months, or even up to 18 months in rare cases until the victim dies unless the feelings are coming back or the plants are surgically removed. There is no set flower that blooms in the lungs, but it could be the enamored’s favorite flower or color.
Hanahaki can be cured by surgically removing the plants’ roots, but this excision also removes the patient’s capacity for romantic love. It may also obliterate the patient’s feelings and memories of the enamored. It can also be cured by the victim’s feelings being reciprocated. These are not feelings of friendship, but rather feelings of genuine love.
Inferno Virus
It’s first recognized in the book named “The Inferno” by Dan Brown. It’s one of the best-selling books by Dan Brown and a sequel to “ The Vinci Code’. Later Hollywood created a movie with the actor Tom Hanks.
A deadly virus that was spread through the air as well as incubated in water. It was released by the terrorist group the Consortium with the intention of killing half of humanity and reproducing with only one-third of ten people who were immune. The virus was recognized from the Black Death virus.
Bertrand Zobrist, the virus’s creator, originally intended for it to be a waterborne virus, but changed his mind because it could infect faster. The Inferno virus can infect humans via damp air and then render them infertile. The plan was for the infected to perish and humanity to become extinct.
Love Sickness
It is also recognized from a Japanese manga named “One Piece”.
A mostly psychosomatic disease which can only be contracted by the Kuja Tribe’s empress if she falls in love with a person and denies her feelings for him. It causes weakness, pain, and, eventually, death due to deterioration of health. The only known cure is for the victim to accept her emotions and pursue her desired object.
This disease has put to death many previous empresses and is now a threat to Boa Hancock, who is pursuing Monkey D. Luffy in order to avoid the symptoms.
The Pulse
It’s first recognized from the horror novel “Cell” by Stephen King.
A powerful virus that is dormant inside mobile phones and requires a strong signal to activate. The precise unleashes are unknown, but numerous theories in the novel suggest that they are a terrorist group. The virus is thought to have been released shortly after September 11th and has since lain dormant in cell phones.
When the correct signal is transmitted and leaked into incoming phone calls, the caller’s brain cells immediately disintegrate, rendering them unable to distinguish between friend and foe; they are even unable to diagnose other people infected with this deadly virus. Inevitably, the infected callers become psychotic and begin killing each other, resulting in a two-day period of chaos before the infected callers become “stable” enough to cooperate and recognize each other.
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