Ong's Disease (or
Ong Disease) refers to an imagined condition in which the sufferer is referred to as having contracted
Ong by coming into contact with (or close proximity) to a person considered to be a undesirable, unclean, odd, grubby or unusual.
Ong's disease takes on an added significance if the suffer then contracts a real illness such as a virus or an allergic reaction. The sufferer will be ridiculed by others who will say, for example, "you've got
Ong" whilst pointing at the sufferer's affliction.
Ong's/ Ong Disease was dreamt up by a group of
young adults after they moved into a house share only to find that their neighbour was a slightly loopy, grubby, annoying
lady who would constantly pop around to the house to level accusations of one sort or another. The woman in question was known as Mrs Ong and after one of her visits to the group's home one of the house mates broke out into a severe rash lasting for days, one of the house mates suggested her friend had caught "Ong's disease" from the
lady next
door.
