Mystery Disease

Woman with mystery disease has nails growing out of hair follicles

Indo-Asian News Service | Friday August 10, 2012

A woman has been labelled a medical mystery after falling victim to an unidentified illness that causes nails to grow out of her hair follicles, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.

2 UK brothers diagnosed with condition which turned them into kids

Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 2, 2012

A devastating age-reversing disease has regressed two middle-aged brothers back to their childhood in the UK, a bizarre condition that mirrors Brad Pitt's role in the American fiction 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.

Vietnam seeks help with mystery disease; 19 dead

Associated Press | Friday April 20, 2012

Vietnam has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to help investigate a mystery disease that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in central Vietnam.

Nodding disease confounds experts, kills children

Agence France Presse | Wednesday February 22, 2012

More than 3,000 children in northern Uganda are suffering from a debilitating mystery ailment known as nodding disease, which has touched almost every family in the village of Tumangu.

Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

The Associated Press | Thursday January 5, 2012

British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved -- How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed...

Squash great Jansher Khan diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

Press Trust of India | Monday October 10, 2011

One of Pakistan's greatest squash player, Jansher Khan has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease after he underwent different tests to diagnose a mysterious illness afflicting him since last six months.

Mystery disease in Muzaffarpur continues to baffle doctors, toll rises to 44

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday June 28, 2011

The mystery disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district continues to claim more lives with the death toll now touching 44. Over the last 10 days, over 40 children have died due to this unknown virus. The National Institute of Virology which is investigating the case has now ruled out encephalitis which ...

Mysterious disease claims four lives in Uttar Pradesh

Indo Asian News Service | Tuesday April 20, 2010

A mysterious disease has claimed the lives of a four-year-old girl and three women in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, officials said Tuesday.