This episode explores how diseases and disorders came to be named after people and places, tracing the origins of surnames, locations and the medical discoveries. Learn how Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Tourette's and Crohn's became part of medical terminology, and why Lyme, Ebola and Marburg are forever linked to illness. Plus, hear about the first reported case of the Spanish Flu in March 1918, in an episode from the History Daily podcast.

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