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Landlubber77 t1_je7w2xt wrote

As long as it's not Lupus. Which it never is.

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Asha_Brea t1_je7wj0s wrote

Except that time it was.

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bekahed979 t1_je884q5 wrote

There was an episode with tularemia

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Asha_Brea t1_je88e3j wrote

They thought it might have been tularemia, but wasn't.

https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Tularemia

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If you made the same mistake that I did, then you are thinking of the Hunting episode.

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bekahed979 t1_je8ap90 wrote

I was thinking of the episode where the woman was sleeping a lot and worked at a fancy pants restaurant as the meat cutter. As I think on it it wasn't tularemia in that episode either, she had a sleeping sickness because slept with her husband's best friend, IIRC

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Asha_Brea t1_je8auv3 wrote

Yup, the episode Fidelity.

She had African Trypanosomiasis.

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bekahed979 t1_je8ayw0 wrote

I haven't watched that in years, I'm surprised I remember it

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Asha_Brea t1_je8rvfe wrote

https://www.healthline.com/health/sleeping-sickness-symptoms

"Most people get African sleeping sickness after being bitten by an infected tsetse fly. In rare cases, the condition has been transmitted from mother to child, through sexual contact, or in a laboratory setting."

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Don't forget that House treats the rarest of the rarest cases by design, and even then, the cases behave in an unusual manner.

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Animallover4321 t1_je9m7ka wrote

I think it was because she had never been in an area where the fly lived so she could only catch it via sexual contact.

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xminh t1_je8bqrn wrote

Thanks for that. I love how even though it’s been several years, reading the episode plot brings me back

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TrappedUnderCats t1_je8f78z wrote

There’s an episode of The West Wing where they lock everything down because it’s suspected that tularemia has got into the building.

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Livio88 t1_je8h5ej wrote

Not as bad as Ligma.

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Sir-Viette t1_je8hhwn wrote

Wait! What is “Ligma”?

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