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For my health class assignment, we are asked to research on some of the world's rarest diseases, how they are cured, affecting it's victims, how many has it and so on. All I'm asking are the diseases that are rare(one that happens at least 1 in every hundred million and so on...), not the specifics.

There is a National Organziation for Rare Diseases that has a terrific Web site.
You can find all kinds of obsure diseases there, along with the relevant stats.

http://www.rarediseases.org/

smallpox

http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/RareDiseases...

You could try the one i have

Hiv negative multicentric hyaline-vascular castleman's disease.

less then 50 cases in the US.

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