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Monstrous Maladies

OCT 30, 2017
These real medical conditions carry uncanny echoes of our monster legends.
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Copyright American Institute of Physics (reprinting information )

Sources for this infographic include:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2013/07/11/the-bestial-virus-rabies/

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130526-do-your-nails-grow-after-death

https://www.genome.gov/19016728/learning-about-porphyria/

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.13030057

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/no-seriously-im-dead/

http://www.acnr.co.uk/SO10/ACNRSO10_50_neuro_signs.pdf

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