Bornholm disease

English

Etymology

Because early cases were recorded on the island of Bornholm.

Noun

Bornholm disease (uncountable)

1. (medicine) An infectious viral disease characterised by fever and chest pain.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 88:

     In medical circles, the name of Bornholm is linked incongruously to a viral infection called epidemic pleurodynia, otherwise known as the ‘Devil's Grip’, the ‘Grasp of the Phantom’ or, more prosaically, Bornholm disease.

Synonyms

• Bamble disease
• epidemic myalgia
• epidemic pleurodynia