Best Name For A Disease?

Discover the intriguing Burning Mouth Syndrome and learn about other fascinating disease names at the American Society for Microbiology.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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I'm at the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, swimming in a lot of excellent new research. I also just learned about a disease I never heard of before, with a truly awesome name: Burning Mouth Syndrome. When I posted this on Twitter, the writer Michael Paul Mason immediately responded with his own favorite: Smoking Stool Syndrome. So what's your favorite?

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