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An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
North Brother Island was once the site of the Riverside Hospital for quarantinable diseases but is now uninhabited. [1] The islands had long been privately owned, but were purchased by the federal government in 2007 with some funding from the Trust for Public Land and others; both were given to the city. They were then designated as sanctuaries ...
Euonymus / j uː ˈ ɒ n ɪ m ə s / is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family Celastraceae. Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree ), burning-bush , strawberry-bush , wahoo , wintercreeper , or simply euonymus .
The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is a biosafety level 4 research laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas, operated by the United States Department of Agriculture. The facility opened in June 2023. [1] The facility is designed to combat biological threats involving human, zoonotic, and foreign animal diseases.
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Year Event Type Death toll Notes and sources 1983–present HIV/AIDS epidemic: disease 84,027+ [1] [a]2020–2023 COVID-19 pandemic: disease 38,795–45,194
AP PhotoOver the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968 , a shift once again caused a pandemic. In 1976 and 2009 , concerns that the virus had shifted led to ...
The Burns Archive is the world’s largest private collection of early medical photography and historic photographs, housing over one million photographs.While it primarily contains images related to medical practises, it is also famous for photographs depicting 'the darker side of life'. [1]