A cura di @Perodatrent (modificato).

Sul Guardian un articolo di Maryn McKenna parla delle difficoltà a riconoscere una malattia se al suo insorgere non si manifesta secondo quello che già conosciamo:

The discovery of new diseases often follows a pattern. Scattered patients realise they are experiencing strange symptoms. They find each other, face to face in a neighbourhood or across the world on the internet. They bring their experience to medicine, and medicine is sceptical. And then, after a period of pain and recalcitrance, medicine admits that, in fact, the patients were right.

L’immagine è tratta da Wikipedia.