# Are medical researchers still discovering new diseases with any constancy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-medical-researchers-still-discovering-new-diseases-with-any-constancy/737951>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-medical-researchers-still-discovering-new-diseases-with-any-constancy/737951 "2015-11-19T02:23:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![scoots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@scoots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scoots)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-medical-researchers-still-discovering-new-diseases-with-any-constancy/737951/21 "2015-11-20T23:21:10Z")

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> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> No man is an island.

Apart from the Isle of Man

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-medical-researchers-still-discovering-new-diseases-with-any-constancy/737951/22 "2015-11-21T05:24:21Z")

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Bourbon Virus comes to mind, first described in a human patient in Bourbon County, Kansas, in 2014, arising from a fatal tick bite.

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