Re: [HAPS-L] Disease/Syndrome names

[Alan Magid <amagid@xxxxxxxxx>]

1, the doc who described it.
2. the place where first recognized.

>From wiki:

Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne disease in
North America and Europe, and the fastest-growing infectious disease in the
United States. It is named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut where a
cluster of cases was identified in 1975, although clinical features of the
disease had been described in Europe as early as 1909.[1] Lyme disease has
now been reported in 49 of 50 states in the U.S, and on every continent
except Antarctica. The cause of Lyme disease is a bacterial infection with a
spirochete from the species complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which
is most often acquired from the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. Borrelia
burgdorferi was first identified in 1982 by Willy Burgdorfer, a tick-borne
disease expert at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases' Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana.



> From: <clifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:16:38 -0600
> To: <HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HAPS-L] Disease/Syndrome names
> 
> Why are some disease/syndrome/condition etc. names possessive, like
> Huntington's disease and others, like Lyme Disease, not possesive?  We
> all know the diseases do not belong to these persons or places.  Is it
> usage and tradition?
> Craig Clifford


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