What are the hardest diseases to cure?
Asked by: Annamarie Stoltenberg PhD | Last update: September 29, 2025Score: 4.4/5 (64 votes)
What is the most feared disease?
- Lassa fever. ...
- Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) ...
- Rift Valley Fever virus. ...
- MERS. ...
- SARS. ...
- 8 & 9. ...
- Chikungunya and Zika. ...
- Disease X.
What diseases can't be cured?
- Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia.
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- Brain Tumors.
- Breast Cancer.
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
- Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia.
What is the hardest disease to live with?
- Alzheimer's and Dementia.
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – Lou Gherig's Disease. ...
- Parkinson's Disease. ...
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) ...
- Scleroderma. ...
- Cystic Fibrosis. ...
- Chronic Obstructive Pulminary Disease (COPD) ...
- Cerebral Palsy. ...
What rare disease cannot be cured?
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS)
HGPS is an extremely rare disease that has a frequency of one in four million. Since 1886, only 130 cases have been reported in scientific literature. Currently, there is no known cure for this condition. Patients affected by this condition appear to age at an early age.
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What is the rarest disease on Earth?
RPI Deficiency
This is considered to be the rarest disease in the world. Ribose-5-Phosphate Isomerase (RPI), is a crucial enzyme in a metabolic process in the human body.
What lung disease cannot be cured?
Pulmonary fibrosis is a serious, lifelong lung disease. It causes lung scarring (tissues scar and thicken over time), making it harder to breathe. Symptoms may come on quickly or take years to develop. No cure exists.
What is the most painful disease to have?
In fact, CRPS is known as the world's most painful incurable condition. In the United States, it is referred to as the “suicide disease” as it can lead sufferers to resort to suicide as the only means to escape the huge pain that they bear.
What is the hardest disorder to treat?
Borderline personality disorder historically has been viewed as challenging to treat.
What diseases are fully cured?
So far, the world has eradicated two diseases — smallpox and rinderpest.
What health symptoms should never be ignored?
- Persistent or high fever. Fever seems to play a key role in fighting infection. ...
- Shortness of breath. ...
- Unexplained changes in bowel habits. ...
- Confusion or personality changes. ...
- Feeling full after eating very little.
What diseases don't exist anymore?
- Smallpox. Smallpox is a highly contagious ancient disease that induced epidemics throughout human history. ...
- Rinderpest. Also called the cattle plague, rinderpest was a lethal disease infecting cattle and buffalo herds from the 18th to 20th century. ...
- Polio. ...
- Measles. ...
- Tetanus. ...
- Flu. ...
- Hepatitis B. ...
- Mumps.
What disease kills within 24 hours?
Cholera. Cholera, which can cause death within 24 hours, is easily treatable: less than 1% of patients die when they're rehydrated quickly, through oral rehydration solution, a mixture of water, salt, and sugar. But each year, anywhere from 21,000 to 143,000 people die of cholera, due to lack of access to treatment.
What disease has no cure?
- cancer.
- dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
- advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease.
- stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
- Huntington's disease.
- muscular dystrophy.
What is the deadliest virus in history?
The Black Death (1346-1353 CE), caused by a highly pathogenic strain of the Yersinia pestis bacillus, crossed from Asia to Europe wiping away over half of the European population (Alchon, 2003; Flight, 2011; Panzac, 2010).
What rare disease has no pain?
Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis (CIPA) is a very rare and extremely dangerous condition. People with CIPA cannot feel pain [1].
What is the top 1 killer disease?
Statistics. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women.
What is white death disease?
The White Death—A History of Tuberculosis
'Between 1803 and 1810 Britain imported some 4000 Mozambique army volunteers to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to form new regiments. By 1820, 3640 (91%) of these unfortunates were dead from tuberculosis.
What is the biggest killer of humans in history?
- Influenza. Total deaths: About 200 million. ...
- Bubonic plague. Total deaths: At least 200 million. ...
- Smallpox. Total deaths: Up to 1 billion. ...
- Tuberculosis. Total deaths: More than 1 billion. ...
- Malaria. Total deaths: Up to 5 billion.
What is the disease Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
The longest word in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a chronic lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silicate or quartz dust. Fewer examples. Pneumono refers to the lung.
Can a lung grow back?
Intriguingly, a recent report provides evidence that an adult human lung can regrow, as evidenced by an increased vital capacity, enlargement of the remaining left lung and increased alveolar numbers in a patient that underwent right-sided pneumonectomy more than 15 years ago [2].
What does stage 1 COPD feel like?
Stage 1 Symptoms are mild and often unnoticed, except during times of exertion. These include mild shortness of breath and a nagging dry cough. Stage 2 Shortness of breath worsens, accompanied by a persistent cough and phlegm production. Flare-ups can cause changes in phlegm color.