The fist person in the U.S. to discover Lyme disease was Dr. Allen Steere.
my neighbor discovered it
It is unknown...but a guess is that some bacterial disease was discovered first because bacteria is an ancient organism....
George Huntington who was a young physician, first described the disease in 1872.
1.you should ask questions such as : when was the heart discovered ? ,who discovered the heart ?, when did people hear about disease's, who was the person to find out about heart disease's had the first heart disease ?,who had the first heart attack ?
An eponymous condition is named after someone.
Caused by the GSS prion, this disease was first described in 1928.
First recognized by Dr. Thomas Addison . 1855 is when he started to publish his findings.
Smallpox
The disease was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates.
Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) was first recognized by Dr. Dearborn in 1966.
eponym
The CDC discovered the cause of Legionnaires disease in 1979. This does not mean that this was a new disease. The CDC believes that previous unsloved cases on pneumonia can now be related back to Legionnaires disease.