Nosophobia

Nosophobia is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.

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Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting COVID-19 (coronaphobia), HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), pulmonary tuberculosis, (phthisiophobia), venereal diseases (syphilophobia or venereophobia), cancer (carcinophobia), heart diseases (cardiophobia), and catching the cold or flu. Etiology== The word nosophobia comes from the Greek‚ nosos for disease.

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