Incurable diseases

Incurable diseases

Incurable Diseases are those ones in which the cause of the disease is not known, the treatment is not defined and high risks of leaving subsquent complications.

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Incurable diseases

Ebola

Health care; Incurable diseases

Ebola is a virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever. The disease is characterized by extreme fever, rash, and profuse hemorrhaging. In ...

Polio

Health care; Incurable diseases

Polio is known in full as poliomyelitis - also called infantile paralysis. It is an acute viral infectious disease of the nervous system that usually begins with general symptoms such as fever, ...

Lupus Erythematosus

Health care; Incurable diseases

Also often referred to simply as lupus, this is an autoimmune disorder that causes chronic inflammation in various parts of the body. Three main types of lupus are recognized—discoid, systemic, and ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Health care; Incurable diseases

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs throughout the world at an incidence of one person in a million; ...

Diabetes

Health care; Incurable diseases

Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism characterized by impaired ability of the body to produce or respond to insulin and thereby maintain proper levels of sugar (glucose) in the ...

HIV/AIDS

Health care; Incurable diseases

AIDS is the byname of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - a transmissible disease of the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV slowly attacks and destroys the immune ...

Asthma

Health care; Incurable diseases

Asthma is a chronic disorder of the lungs in which inflamed airways are prone to constrict, causing episodes of breathlessness, wheezing, coughing, and chest tightness that range in severity from ...