Paranoia of diseases

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Ever since I was ten, or maybe younger, I have always been really paranoid of serious diseases. Things like cancer, aids, or any new disease that comes up. Things like the cold or flu don't bother me though. I have randomly found myself becoming paranoid if I even just cut myself with something, thinking I may get HIV or something, or constantly checking my body for 'lumps' out of habit. I also feel paranoid if I ever feel abnormaly tired among other things. Is anyone else like this?

I get paranoied of diseases aswell. When I heard about the swine flu killing lots of people who suffer with their lungs (and some people without), I really freaked out because both my parents have problems in their lungs (my dad has asthma and my mum has a sensitivity in her lungs that makes her really ill when she gets a cough). I don't quite know what's happened to the swine flu but I don't hear of it now at all. It's all the government cutbacks now.

I worry about other diseases aswell. I read in the newspaper about someone died from having an infection in a little blister on his foot, and that night I woke up with severe itching where a blister is on my foot, and of course I started panicking. Then when I saw blood when I went toilet (no, not menstual blood), I went up the doctors about it immediately. It was nothing sinister at all.

If I knew the hospitals were cleaner, I don't think I would get so het up about getting ill. Where I come from, there are so many stories of bad hygiene and severe vomiting bugs going around in hospitals due to poor hygiene and lack of care.