Nosophobia
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Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia[1] or illness anxiety disorder,[2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia. Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia),[3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia),[4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia),[5] cancer (carcinophobia), heart diseases (cardiophobia[6]), and catching the common cold or flu.
The word nosophobia comes from the Greek νόσος nosos for "disease" and φόβος, phobos, "fear".[7]