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by this i mean how they make the people they infect look like ill start
a pretty bad ring worm infection
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You guys have done pretty well (once you got past the whole "obese people" thing, though that point about it being a pandemic is an increasingly attention-worthy one). Necrotising fasciitis, Ebola, colonoscopy pictures of inflammatory colitis... hyperkeratinising disorders like harlequin ichythiosis. Yeah, not bad. They're about on par with some of the fungating abscesses you find in infected post-operative wounds for cancers where the patient has poor circulation, diabetes, and a wonky heart. You can even tell what kind of bacteria's causing the infection by the smell it puts out. Speaking of cancer, I once met a man who had no face. Literally no face, because it had been removed due to a cancer in the nasal sinuses. When he removed his mask, you could see the bones of one eye socket and the base of the skull from the inside, and his mouth was just an empty maw opening directly to his throat. No amount of prosthetics was going to work when half the head was missing. And speaking of diabetes, I once removed a woman's boot to discover that her toes had been replaced. By maggots. Live ones. That had eaten her toes. She didn't realise because she hadn't removed her boots in over a year. And she didn't feel it because the diabetes had destroyed the nerves in her feet.
I can top all that though.
Hydatidiform mole, resulting from abnormal proliferation of the chorion of the placenta. You get one of these, that fetus never stood a chance.
Here, this image is better:
You can see the cystic pattern in the placenta.
Really, though, birthing babies is kinda cool, but the biggest issue for me was the placenta. Oh my god, the smell. Given the placenta is essentially a fetus' wastebag and it comes out all bloody and slimy. And you have to then inspect it for abnormalities. And to think that some cultures have the mother eat the placenta.
And to think that some cultures have the mother eat the placenta.
Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner
A healthy one placenta for comparison.
How about neurofibromatosis?
(Not sure if all these will work.)
for the last one all i saw was a black kids forehead and i was like omg thats disgusting jk 
this is Hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis is a disorder characterized by excessive hair growth on the body. all of the black stuff on their faces is hair btw.
I got one here.It's called Buruli Ulcer. It's a tropical infection that you get when a certain bacteria plants himself into your skin and releasesa toxin that destroys skin.
Yeah that's pretty dramatic. I don't know if I have to censor that last image or not... I will leave it for now though and come to a decision on it later.
I've still got a few at my disposal but since we're on the subject of dermatological and infecious diseases, all serious dermatology cases end up looking similar (except to a dermatologist, lol).
The one serious derm emergency one might encounter in a 1st world hospital is pemphigus vulgaris:
It's an autoimmune condition in which your body basically attacks your skin (or what holds it together). Basically you get blisters all over your body. If untreated, you'll die from fluid loss.
Something that you won't see in the 1st world anymore due to availability of antibiotics is tertiary syphilis, which basically means deep ulcerations (called gumma) and deformities anywhere and everywhere:
And this one's just a bust but still demonstrative of the granulomatous changes...
The possibilities seem endless!