Famous individuals with diseases, retired in 2020

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Immune system diseases

• Rheumatoid arthritis: Caroline Wozniacki (2020 retirement from sports) 

 

Other diseases

• Amnesia: Frankie Muniz
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Fabrice Muamba (2012 retirement from sports)
  
• Stroke:
  
• Tim Curry (2012, permanent disability)
• Transient Ischaemic Attack: Frankie Muniz

 

Poisoning

• Organophosphate poisoning: 
  
• Sergei Skripal (2018; civilians Yulia Skripal and Dawn Sturgess were also poisoned; the Skripals are reported to be living in a witness protection programme)

 

Psychiatric disorders

• Schizophrenia: Jake Lloyd (paranoid subtype)
  

Wounds, injuries, and sequelae thereof

• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy:
• O.J. Simpson (released from prison in 2017; CTE diagnosis is unconfirmed, but supported by Dr. Bennett Omalu)
  
• Persistent vegetative state: Michael Schumacher (2013; skiing accident)
  
• Radiation injuries: Anatoli Bugorski (1978; a 76 GeV proton beam from a particle accelerator penetrated the back of his head, exiting to the left of the nose; permanent hemifacial paralysis, epilepsy, increased fatiguability, no apparent cognitive disability, continued to work as physicist).