unexpected means of rating rarity

[waider]

So a friend's daughter has Gillian Barre Syndrome, essentially an autoimmune disease of the brain that causes problems with coordination. Consult your local doctor for a better definition, I guess. Anyway, being the curious sort, I plugged "Gillian Barre" Syndrome into Google. From the resulting list of hits, I've determined that this must be a fairly common disease, since it's being used to bait sites in the same way as, say, Brittney Spears or Hot/Live/Wet/Young/Nude/Whatever Teens.

Update: Actually, I'm seeing several names for this. The friend in question told me it was Gillian Bere. Gillian Barre turns up a lot of hits, and it's what google suggests. Somewhere else says Gillian Barré. And I've now seen one that says Guillain-Barre, which seems to be the correct spelling as it's turning up some far more useful hits. Google, spell-checker of the masses.

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[waider.livejournal.com]

Yep, that sums up what I eventually found, more or less. Apparently the kid in question is a hell of a lot better, although still not back to normal.

And I can see how an Irish doctor's rendition of the name might turn into "Gillian Bere", although I'd have expected "Gillian Barry".