Breaking News: King Tut Died of Malaria…

It has been was determined that King Tut died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his more than 3,300-year-old mummy.  Wow, that’s some great findings….on a dead body….that’s been dead for a while….like 3,300 years.  Oh, and you know what else I wanted to say to those who took part in this study to determine how a 3,300 year old dead body died?  Yeah, I just wanted to mention that the following diseases currently have no cure:

* Acute lymphocytic leukemia

* acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), see also HIV

* Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)

* Alzheimer’s disease

* Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease)

* Aspartylglucosaminuria

* Asthma

* Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

* Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease

* Avian influenza

* B-mannosidosis

* Batten disease (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)

* Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, “mad cow” disease)

* Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

* Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)

* Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), see also bovine spongiform encephalopathy and kuru

* Crohn’s disease

* Currarino triad

* Cystic fibrosis

* Cystinosis

* Dementia

* Diabetes (Type I)

* Dysmyelogenic leukodystrophy (DMD, a.k.a. Alexander disease)

* Ebola

* Emphysema (C.O.P.D.)

* Farber disease

* Fatal familial insomnia

* Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

* Fucosidosis

* Galactosialidosis (Goldberg syndrome)

* Gaucher disease

* GM1 gangliodsidosis

* Hairy cell leukemia

* Heart disease (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy)-HCM or HOCM

* Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HVPS)

* Herpes zoster

* High grade astrocytoma (brain cancer)

* Hurler syndrome (includes Hurler-Scheie)

* Hunter syndrome

* Huntington’s disease

* infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

* Immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura

* Krabbe disease

* Kuru, see Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

* Lissencephaly

* Lymphocytic lymphomas

* Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

* Small lymphocytic lymphoma

* Maroteaux-Lamy

* Marburg hemorrhagic fever

* Metastatic melanoma

* Metastatic breast cancer

* Metastatic prostate cancer

* Non-small cell lung cancer

* Metastatic gastric cancer

* Metastatic merkel cell carcinoma

* Metastatic renal cell carcinoma

* Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD)

* Morquio A

* Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease)

* Mucolipidosis IV

* Multiple sclerosis (MS)

* Myasthenia gravis

* Niemann-Pick disease (All types: A, B and C)

* Parkinson’s disease

* Polio

* Pompe disease

* Prosaposin

* Progeria

* Pseudomyxoma peritonei

* Psoriasis

* Salla disease

* Sandhoff disease

* Sanfilippo A

* Scheie syndrome

* Schindler disease

* Schizophrenia

* Sialidosis (mucolipidosis I)

* Sly syndrome

* Spherocytosis

* Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

* Spinocerebellar ataxia

* Spreading adenocarcinoma

* Systemic lupus erythematosus

* Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis[1]

* Systemic sclerosis

* Takayasu’s arteritis (pulseless disease)

* Tay-Sachs disease

* Thalassemia

* Wolan disease

Pick one of those….and then find a cure.  Thanks.