Diagnose this!

[havikk]

This is a game I did on another forum. Its quite simple. Each week on Monday I will give symptoms to some disease and you job is to diagnose it. I will mostly use the CDC website, WebMD, or other medical websites. This doesn't mean all I do are diseases. They may be Anthrax or conditions such as schizophrenia. So here is the first disease, its pretty easy this week.

- a bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer
- pain in the chest
- coughing up blood or sputum
- weakness or fatigue
- weight loss
- no appetite
- chills
- fever
- sweating at night

 

[Kath]

Teberculosis

 

[havikk]

yea, easy... I might do smallpox or somthing uncommonly known next week.

By the way, that was straight of CDC site.

 

[Will]

Tuberculosis

I think i win for spelling it right :CHappy:

 

[Kath]

I didn't even look at WebMD I just knew that. Thank 6th grade English for teaching me about the symptoms of Teberculosis via Edgar Allan Poe

 

[havikk]

yea, it could have also been cancer because cancer has no real rock hard symptoms. I just needed the symptoms from CDC to narrow it down.

 

[Lavi]

It's so obviously TB. Coughing up blood and pain in the chest are the signature symptoms.

 

[havikk]

it could also be lung cancer... thats the thing its like diagnosing a real disease there is no clear choice its a hit and miss thing...

 

[Green Ranger]

It's not lupus.

 

[havikk]

What the **** is with people and Lupus honestly....

 

[Lavi]

it could also be lung cancer... thats the thing its like diagnosing a real disease there is no clear choice its a hit and miss thing...

I don't correlate cancer with fevers. >.>

 

[Green Ranger]

What the **** is with people and Lupus honestly....

House.

 

[havikk]

well yea but when is it ever lupus really?

 

[Green Ranger]

well yea but when is it ever lupus really?

It's never lupus. That's the point.

 

[Viggy]

It's not lupus.

You win the thread, sir.

 

[havikk]

It's about 1:30 my time so its Monday morning. Here are this weeks symptoms.

Fever (temperature greater than 100 degrees F). The fever may be accompanied by chills or night sweats.
Flu-like symptoms
Cough, usually a non-productive cough, chest discomfort, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle aches
Sore throat, followed by difficulty swallowing, enlarged lymph nodes, headache, nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal distress, vomiting, or diarrhea
A sore, especially on your face, arms or hands, that starts as a raised bump and develops into a painless ulcer with a black area in the center.

Yea, you wont find this on WebMD.... I think...

 

[Enishi]

pig aids

 

[havikk]

Nope, but this may save your life someday.... someday

 

[JM76]

T-virus.

 

[havikk]

nope