Diseases are often named after the first place they occurred like the Ebola Virus disease which is named after a river, More recently, some Arab countries were unhappy that a new disease caused by a coronavirus was dubbed Middle East respiratory syndrome and also the name which was first .. Although, WHO has released a new set of guidelines on how to name diseases so that it wouldn't affect a particular race. We will just discuss about this diseases and their um.... (please finish the sentence).




1. Rapunzel syndrome

Well, we all remember the long hair Rapunzel from fairy tales well shes got her name here. People affected by this syndrome don't grow long hair like she did, instead they eat their hair, This hair is able to stay in the stomach for even years. When the doctors perform an operation to remove the hair from the digestive system, it comes out as a rope of hair http://www.newsphases.com/2016/05/people-and-characters-that-were-named.html