Quote of the day: "Death is not good." ~Pathology course director
TIL: Coney island is named for rabbits (the old dutch name was Conyne Eylandt and the english one was Conney Isle; both versions of Coney mean rabbit). The rabbits used to cause a significant number of cases of tularemia, a bacterial infection that's carried by rabbits, in the Brooklyn/NYC area.
Recurrent and recrudescent are very similar words used to describe infections. The former means an infection that has returned due to repeated exposure to the infectious agent; the latter is a breakout that originates from within the person due to the original infectious exposure.
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