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[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:13:55 CDT, Frank Knobbe said:

> term of diseases. How many different names do we have for ...say...
> chicken pox or colitis or diabetes? Imagine you had 5 different names
> for the flu.

Diabetes comes in Type 1 and Type 2, which are quite different (in one,
your pancreas quits producing insulin, in the other, the insulin is produced, but
not utilized well by your body).

Influenza comes in many different strains as well - in fact, predicting which
strains will be prevalent and should be included in flu shots is a major
challenge.  Strains are usually named after the closest major city to the first
known outbreak, although the one that got loose in 1918 is a special case...

As you were saying?

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