Did Some Infectious Diseases Names Descend from Monkey?
When the illness terminology is an aggression against the ‘other.’
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14 min readJul 9, 2022
It is a long-established custom in international medical literature to define many infectious diseases with a geographical name. Sometimes it refers to a city (Marburg, in Germany) or town (Lyme, in Connecticut, USA). It can also be a country, state, or nation…
