Rare Disease Day 2025 is on Friday, February 28, 2025: Why are there so many diseases these days?

Friday, February 28, 2025 is Rare Disease Day 2025. Rare Disease Day is an observance held on the last day of February to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve access to treatment and medical representation for individuals with rare diseases and their families.

Rare Disease Day is an observance held on the last day of February to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve access to treatment and medical representation for individuals with rare diseases and their families.

Rare Disease Day is an awareness hung on the last day of February to increase awareness about diseases that most people will certainly not understand of, along with to improve access to treatment. EURORDIS (The European Company for Rare Diseases) claims that therapy for several uncommon illness is insufficient, and some people's high quality of life is greatly prevented by disparity, merely due to the fact that folks have actually never ever heard of their illness, or do not recognize the condition and the person's demands. Since 2008, EURORDIS has been implemented social networks to aid sustain people with rare conditions and their households, as well as Co-Ordinating events for Rare Disease Day at an international degree.2010 provided balloon launches, marathons, public auctions and tree growing occasions to raise recognition, and every year people impacted by unusual diseases are encouraged to share images and their stories with the world.

There are multiple factors going on here.

(1) 50 years ago (more like about 100 years ago) rates of infectious diseases and deaths from them were much higher. This has transformed in the current age to higher rates of inflammatory and chronic, unknown, and "rare" diseases like autoimmune disease and cancer.

(2) As technology has progressed, ways of classifying and detecting diseases has also become more advanced and systematic.

(3) As technology has progressed (mostly within the last 100 years), which is a blink in evolutionary time (and for those who don't believe in evolution, it could be though of as the ability of living things to adapt to the situations, adapt or die) hundreds of chemicals with largely unknown effects beyond superficial understandings of toxicity have been introduced to the environment. These chemicals tax the immune system and interfere with other delicate body hormonal systems.

There are more controversial theories as far as the reason why there are so many severe infectious diseases, which is not to discount the presence of infectious disease in the past (i.e. bubonic plague, which still sleeps in rodent populations in the hills of California, although due medicine the disease is now treatable) have occured, and that is biological research. Humans now have the ability to recombine sequences of DNA (for example, taking DNA from bird, mouse, human, whatever... and recombining it in various sequences.) Although that is not my area of expertise, there are some pretty wild conspiracy theories out there. Somehow these Frankenstein sequences get loose and... there is the emergence of disease. Doesn't explain why the breakouts seem to happen at random in both densely and sparsely populated areas.

You can also imagine that it is the natural progression of viruses in the environment to adapt, morph, and change over time as does everything. In this globalized, media-rich world, news of these changes travels faster.

So there are a lot of angles to your very interesting question.

very RARE disease (TM)?

Kyle Vallade,

Transverse Myelitis is a rare neurological disorder that is part of a spectrum of neuroimmunologic diseases of the central nervous system. Peak incidence occurs between ages 10 and 19, then again between ages 30 and 39. In the United States, approximately 1,400 new cases are diagnosed each year. About 33,000 Americans have some type of disability from this disorder. The term myelitis refers to inflammation of the spinal cord and transverse simply describes the position of the inflammation, that is, across the width of the spinal cord. Attacks of inflammation can damage or destroy myelin, the fatty insulating substance that covers nerve cell fibres. This damage causes nervous system scars that interrupt communications between the nerves in the spinal cord and the rest of the body. Therefore, transverse myelitis is a neurological disorder caused by inflammation across both sides of one level, or segment, of the spinal cord. The exact cause(s) of transverse myelitis is/are not known so the statement that you quote that it may have been caused by “drinking bad water, receiving allergy shots or sitting wrong” is flawed. In some people, transverse myeltis represents the first symptom of an underlying demyelinating disease of the central nervous system such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or neuromyelitis optica (NMO). A form of transverse myelitis known as "partial" myelitis -affecting only a portion of the cross-sectional area of the spinal cord - is more characteristic of MS. Recovery from transverse myelitis usually begins within 2 to 12 weeks of the onset of symptoms and may continue for up to 2 years. Unfortunately, making predictions about individual cases is difficult because each individual is affected differently. I would assume that you should be regularly monitored for any possible relapse and evaluate possible underlying causes such as MS. NMO, or systemic lupus erythematosus since most people who experience relapse have an identifiable underlying disorder. I would mention that although some patients recover from transverse myelitis with minor or no residual problems, others suffer permanent impairments that affect their ability to perform some ordinary tasks involved in daily living. Whilst most patients will have only one episode of transverse myelitis, a small percentage may have a recurrence. Without full medical reports and test results, it is not possible to take this discussion any further and you would be advised to make an appointment with your doctor to discuss your/any further questions. I wish you well.

ALL ANSWERS SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED, IN ANY FORUM AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS ONE. - MANY ANSWERS ARE FLAWED.

It is extremely important to obtain an accurate diagnosis before trying to find a cure. Many diseases and conditions share common symptoms.

The information provided here should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions.

Hope this helps

matador 89

Rare diseases/physically abnormalities...?

The New York Times has a science section every Tuesday you should check out their web site and see if they have any thing interesting. Most news papers have one day a week that has scientific news and medical break throughs. You might also want check out the web sites for the major new magazines, like Time, Newsweek and Especially check out the web site for the magazine Psychology Today.