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Is there such a thing as a laughing disease?

2007-01-08 18:52:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diseases & Conditions Other - Diseases

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Yes, it is also called as kuru.

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kuru

2007-01-08 18:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by R Murali 2 · 0 0

Well there's paradoxical/hysterical crying/laughing syndrome, which is a result of brain damage to certain control centre of the brain. It's not a disease per se, but a clinical manifestation of an underlying cause.

Hope this helps.

2007-01-09 00:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by Blah? 4 · 0 0

giggling affliction quite refers to a prionic affliction stated as kuru. interior the previous due stages of the affliction victims are companies to suits of laughter, crying or different emotional outbursts. The uncontrollable suits are via destruction of strategies tissue. The closes appropriate illnesses are: scrapie in sheep, mad cow affliction in livestock, creutzfeld-jacobs affliction in people, and protracted dropping affliction in deer. There are others, yet i in my view don't experience like itemizing all of them. they're all illnesses that reason spongiform encephalopathy (holes interior the strategies) led to by applying prions (infectious proteins) quite than bacteria or viruses.

2016-12-12 07:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by kleckner 4 · 0 0

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