ProbableNamed from the place
Ohio Valley disease
noun · first attested 20th century
A lung infection named for the valley where almost every resident meets it.
Another name for histoplasmosis, a lung infection caught from a soil fungus.
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- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Ohio Valley disease
Histoplasma capsulatum thrives in the moist soils of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, especially where bird or bat droppings enrich them, and most residents are exposed without ever falling ill. The regional name stuck in American medicine even though the fungus occurs on several continents.
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