I remember being so confused in the US when it came to sickness, because everything seemed to have a different name from Australia. I guess it must be the same in Canada. I'm not sure that strep throat *is* tonsilitis, actually, because everyone used it to refer to even the slightest sore throat. Also, strep and tonsilitis have two separate Wikipedia entries, it seems. But if they *are* two different things, I wonder why nobody ever talks about it in Australia?
Then there was a disease called mono - I only figured out it was glandular fever after I got back to Australia and looked it up. If you don't have internet access at the time, it's very confusing!
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Date: 2009-12-01 01:00 pm (UTC)Then there was a disease called mono - I only figured out it was glandular fever after I got back to Australia and looked it up. If you don't have internet access at the time, it's very confusing!