# Fictional Drug or Disease Names

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-drug-or-disease-names/443057>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 28, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-drug-or-disease-names/443057 "2008-03-28T16:06:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-drug-or-disease-names/443057/81 "2008-04-01T14:23:58Z")

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[QUOTE=mobo85]  
Coincidentially, _The Onion AV Club_ this week has a list of fictional drugs: [Don’t Bogart That Jenkem!](http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/dont_bogart_that_jenkem_18)  
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The [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/406067.stm) to this day tacitly accepts the existence of jenkem. The [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem) entry assumes the facts aren’t in, either.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-drug-or-disease-names/443057/82 "2008-04-01T17:04:15Z")

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There’s always [The Dreaded Lurgy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=458240&highlight=lurgy)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-drug-or-disease-names/443057/83 "2008-04-01T19:41:53Z")

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Oh! And how can we forget [_Jungle Fever!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Fever)

(Although that might fall outside the OP’s parameters as it’s almost certainly not Spike Lee’s own coinage but a slang term in circulation at the time.)

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