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[Opinions] Re: think about it...
Malaria is a pretty disease name too.

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So is influenza and it has to do with the moon.
So's diarrhea, so's rubella ... I draw the line at pellagra.This reminds me of a book by Cormac McCarthy called "Child of God." There's a family who run the town dump and there's like twelve daughters, all named from a medical book their father found in the trash. So there's Urethra, Sara Bella, and Hernia Sue, among others.