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Cause Effect Treatment Prevention History Notes MLA Everything has a history. Even infectious diseases. -Mono was discovered in the 1800's -Mononucleosis was originally named glandular fever by a group of German doctors. They named it that because you get swollen glands and lymph nodes when you suffer from it. - In 1889 Dr. E. Pfeiffer was said to have written the first discussion and description of the virus -In 1920 the disease was named "infectious mononucleosis" in Johns Hopkins Medical Bulletin in 1920, by Thomas P. Sprunt and Frank A. Evans. -In 1932, researchers Paul & Bunnell made a discovery which helped doctors to diagnose 'infectious mononucleosis' more accurately. -In 1964 a group of doctors discovered EBV but it was not until when a laboratory technician (who was working with the Epstein Barr Virus) got the infectious mononucleosis. Gertrude & Werner-Henle then made the link between EBV and Mononucleosis.



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