This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …
Ten Curiously Named Diseases
(with what they afflict)
- Astrakhan Spotted Fever (humans)
- Corridor Disease (bovines)
- Flaccid Trunk Disease (elephants)
- Hamberger Gill Disease (fish)
- Huanglongbing (citrus trees)
- Motley Dwarf Disease (carrots)
- O’nyong-nyong fever (humans)
- Tulip Fingers (humans)
- Witches’ Broom (cacao trees)
- Wobbly Possum Disease (possums)