Disease Facts

There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.

Only about 1% of the estimated one trillion microbial species on Earth are known to cause disease in humans.

People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

Armadillos can get leprosy.

African giant pouched rats can screen 100 TB sputum samples in under 20 minutes. A lab technician takes at least four days to do the same work. APOPO trains these rats, called HeroRATs, to spot TB cases standard tests miss. They also sniff out buried landmines. Too light to set the mines off.