What can not science explain?
Last reviewed: 23.11.2021
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Science and medicine over the past decade has reached incredible heights, but still there are some diseases that scientists can not explain.
The first in the list of the most mysterious and unexplained diseases was the Marburg virus, discovered in the late 60s in Africa. The vectors of the virus are primates, it is transmitted through body fluids (blood, saliva, vomit, etc.). When infected, a person experiences fever, muscle pain, headaches, over time, rash, bleeding (including external). Mortality from the Marburg virus is 50%.
In second place, "Syndrome of sudden infant mortality" - the death of a child under the age of 1 year from a sharp stopping of breathing in a dream, while the child is apparently perfectly healthy and even after the autopsy it is impossible to establish the exact causes of death. Studies of this pathology have been conducted since the 50s of the last century, but so far scientists can not answer the question, what causes the death of a child in a dream.
In third place lethargic encephalitis is another disease that scientists have not been able to explain to date. Disease is an atypical form of encephalitis and was first described in 1917. With lethargic encephalitis, the brain is damaged, which causes a stasis-like condition, i.e. A person can not talk and move. In Western Europe, since the beginning of the First World War and until 1926, there has been an epidemic of lethargic encephalitis, today the disease is practically not found.
In the fourth place, the nodal syndrome, discovered only 6 years ago in East Africa. The disease is quite rare, which has occurred so far only in certain regions (northern Uganda, eastern Africa, southern Sudan, southern Tanzania), affects mainly children from 5 to 15 years. The patient during the attack makes frequent nodding movements of the head, while the view remains fixed. On average, the attack lasts a few minutes, occurs most often during meals or in the cold. The disease affects the brain and children are significantly behind in development, both mental and physical.
In fifth place, "English sweat" is an infectious disease, the origin of which remains unclear. The disease was discovered in the XV century and flashed several times in Europe, after that it was not shown anywhere. The disease begins with a strong chills, headaches, dizziness, pain in the extremities, after a few hours there is profuse sweating, rapid pulse, thirst, pain in the heart, delusions.
In the sixth place Syndrome of muscle stiffness (or "stiff man") - a fairly rare neurological disease, characterized by increased muscle tone, painful spasms. Severe spasms can lead to deformation of the joints, muscle rupture, fractures, eventually the person is completely paralyzed, and there are difficulties with eating.
Also, experts noted some diseases that at least once struck humanity - the dance plague, the disease of the Peruvian meteorite, the Hutchinson-Guilford syndrome, porphyria.