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The repeated mentions of chickenpox are weird. Apart from ending in the same sequence of three characters chickenpox and monkeypox/smallpox have nothing in comm
by jhugo 4y ago
The repeated mentions of chickenpox are weird. Apart from ending in the same sequence of three characters chickenpox and monkeypox/smallpox have nothing in common. The name similarity is accidental.
- ethbr0 4y agoA linguistic artifact from a time when we classified diseases by symptoms, because we had not yet acquired our modern genetic tools. :)