Koro: The genital-shrinking disease with a Malaysian origin

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Koro makes patients believe their genitals will shrink into their abdomen and eventually lead to their untimely death.

Have you ever looked at your genitals in shock, believing it had shrunk? Have you ever become so anxious about the condition, worrying that it’ll keep on shrinking until it completely disappears from view?

This causes anxiety and acute panic, despite no evidence of shrinking based on long-term medical follow-ups and regular measurements. The condition gained notoriety and the attention of western medicine in the fall of the 19th century and early 20th century when an outbreak of such cases was identified in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

 

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