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• [Disease fact 1] Gin and Tonic were originally created by the British East India Company as a way to get soldiers to have quinine to prevent and treat malaria. Quinine (in tonic) was too bitter. In order to get them to drink the tonic officers added the soldiers' gin rations with sugar, lime, and water.

  Beverages, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 2] Measles can wipe out the body's immune system "memory" of other diseases for years.

  Disease, Peoplesource

• [Disease fact 3] There is a disease named Fatal Familial Insomnia that takes away your ability to sleep. You sink into horrible psychosis and inevitably die over the course of a few months. There is no cure and there are no viable treatments.

  Death, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 4] Naegleriasis is a near-fatal disease caused by a small amoeba. It is quite rare but out of 450 cases in the last 60 years, only 7 have survived. It is essentially a brain-eating amoeba that is transmitted via contaminated water.

  Death, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 5] Farmers feed large magnets to cows to prevent "Hardware Disease". Cow Magnets sit in their "stomach" for the lifetime of the cow and prevent accidentally eaten pieces of metal from lodging in the stomach folds causing illness.

  Animals, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 6] The Scottish army tried to take advantage of the Black Plague in England through an invasion, but caught it themselves and brought it back to Scotland, killing half of the native population.

  Death, Disease, Placessource

• [Disease fact 7] In May 2006, over 300 Portuguese school children received medical attention for an illness which caused rashes and shortness of breath. The illness was later cited as being a case of mass hysteria caused by an episode of a soap opera which dealt with a deadly virus outbreak in a school.

  Countries, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 8] The Dutch 16th-century painting "The Adoration of the Christ Child" is speculated to feature a shepherd and an angel with Down syndrome.

  Art, Diseasesource

• [Disease fact 9] We use the word cancer as a medical diagnosis because Hippocrates thought the tumors looked like crabs.

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• [Disease fact 10] Nazi Party lawyer Wilhelm Stuckart was responsible for the Nazi regime’s program of euthanasia for “deformed newborns.” Two years after creating the laws, his own son born with Down syndrome became one of their victims.

  Disease, Nazisource

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