This month’s “Ten Things” is a bit more unusual. There are many strange diseases out in the wild and some are weirdly named, so I bring you …
Ten Oddly Named Diseases (with the animal/plant affected in parenthesis)
- Astrakhan Spotted Fever (humans)
- Flaccid Trunk Disease (elephants)
- O’nyong-nyong fever (humans)
- Whirling Disease (trout)
- Lime Witches’ Broom Phytoplasma (citrus trees)
- Wobbly Possum Disease (possums)
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (humans)
- Huanglongbing (citrus trees)
- Motley Dwarf Disease (carrots)
- Corridor Disease (bovines)