Professor Peter Piot discovered Ebola in the Congo in 1976.
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Dr.George Huntington
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Chagas' disease
It started appearing in 1996.
When he discovered it he was in Italy his home country.
According to the Lyme Disease Foundation, the disease has been in the United States for over one hundred years.
Dr. Osgood and Dr. Schlatter were the first two doctors to discover and find a cure for this disease.
He didn't "discover" it, but he was the first to publish an accurate description of the disease that now bears his name. He was the son of a physician, and then himself becamse a physician, who had the opportunity to observe several generations of people with the disease, which allwed him to draw conclusions about inheritance as well as symptoms.
Yellow fever was the disease that Walter Reed discovered was transmitted by a mosquito. This disease was a particular problem during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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Antoine Marfan, a pediatrician, discovered this disease in 1896. It is now called Marfan syndrome. It is a hereditary disorder of the connective tissue.