<unk> , also known as disease phobia or illness anxiety disorder, 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), pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), venereal diseases (syphilophobia or venereophobia), cancer (carcinophobia), heart diseases (cardiophobia), and catching the common cold or flu. The word<unk>  comes from the Greek νόσος nosos for "disease" and φόβος, phobos, "fear".
Nosophobia
Phonophobia
Thermophobia
Phagophobia
Cynophobia
Arachnophobia
Mysophobia
Neophobia