Are we armed with all the information to fight the worst diseases, even the ones that we’ve just discovered? Scientists wanted to create a list to identify the worst diseases to gain more information and be ready to help treat these diseases.
Megan Berry
Take a look at the common and scientific names on the 1964 list (below). Can you tell which is the common name and which is the scientific? One of the first things you should notice about the scientific names is that some of the species have two names while other have three. The ones with three names are not just species, but a small group within species called a "subspecies."
