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unusual facts about wasting disease



Lennox sisters

As a young woman, she fell ill with a wasting disease--possibly tuberculosis--and her older siblings sent her first to Kingsgate and then to France in a vain effort to recover her strength.

Penanggalan

Those whose blood the Penanggalan feeds upon contract a wasting disease that is almost inescapably fatal.


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Eelgrass limpet

In the early 1930s, the seagrass beds all along that part of the coastline were decimated by "Wasting Disease", which was caused by a slime mold.

Green abalone

Green abalones are subject to a chronic, progressive and lethal disease: the Withering Syndrome or abalone wasting disease, leading to mass mortality.