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The other major difference is the authors' decision to eliminate the use of possessive eponyms, which is consistent with current usage in medical dictionaries, by the American Association for Medical Transcription, and by the American Medical Association. Our obsession with geographic eponyms for a disease of worldwide distribution is best illustrated by Russian, or later red influenza or red flu, which first came to attention in November 1977, in the Soviet Union. The eponyms of Scott Spencer's 1995 novel Men in Black are intergalactic disinformation specialists who pay ominous unannounced visits to those who have spotted extraterrestrials. |
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