The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 22, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(5):410; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm058
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Implausible diseases and public health
Fred Paccaud** Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
Correspondence: Fred Paccaud, Institute of Social and Preventive medicine, Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. email: fred.paccaud@chuv.ch
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The BMJ published in 2006 a paper introducing a new pathology: the motivational deficiency disorder.1 This time, it was an April fool's day joke, so humanity escaped a new condition (perhaps a pandemic ...). However, there are many papers, not published on 1 April, which present other novel