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Poorly-named affliction (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is why I am a fan of naming them after patient zero, or the first to diagnose etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The WHO discourages this because people will start associating the name with the disease. Which sucks if you happen to have this name. See Tourette's, or Chagas disease.

You can read a bit about it here.