Word: haemophilus
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Medical scientists themselves have added to the confusion with an overlap of names. In 1892 a German researcher thought the cause of influenza was a bacillus, and named it Haemophilus influenzae. That bacillus is now known to cause infections in some flu victims, but only coincidentally. In 1922 a related bacillus, found in the throats of both cats and man, was named Haemophilus parainfluenzae, but has nothing to do with diseases now known to be caused by viruses...