Why this word is great
SEROPHOBIA — [Noun] The fear of, dislike of, or prejudice against individuals who are seropositive, particularly those living with HIV. From sero- (referring to serum, particularly in the context of seropositivity) + -phobia ("fear or aversion"). Unlike "homophobia" (which targets sexual orientation) or "germophobia" (a generalized fear of contamination), serophobia fixates on the specter of a virus made monstrous by ignorance. It is the flinch of a hand withdrawn from a handshake, the murmur of neighbors about who "brought it here," or the cold bureaucracy of a clinic segregating files by status—a fear not of disease, but of the human beings marked by it, as though stigma were the real contagion.