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Thanks, Alan, for the quick reply but that was not what I was asking.
I was inquiring about the apostrophe s on some but not others. Is it
just tradition as to what was first published? Are there any rules?
Do new names not use the possessive whereas in the past there were? Craig Alan Magid wrote: 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========================================== To manage subscription,send email from the subscription address to imailsrv@xxxxxxxxxxx and in MESSAGE (1) To unsubscribe from HAPS-L, put : unsubscribe HAPS-L, (2)To subscribe from a different address, put : subscribe HAPS-L your_full_name ========================================= |