Talk:A Health of Information/@comment-7369594-20170608002424/@comment-24245960-20170611200719

My point is that if the writers did not want the affliction to instantly be equated with an actual equine disease but rather wished it to be taken as a fictitious magical fantasy ailment, then they would not have used the actual name of the disease but instead would have made something up or at the very least alter the name slightly as they did with poison joke. But they did not take any such creative measures so I see no reason to assume that swamp fever is anything other than swamp fever.