The disease was "first identified" by someone WHITE in a nun maybe. You can be sure the people who had it, and who'd had had it for possibly millennia, had a name for it already.

I think you meant, the disease first came to the attention of Western medicine, or Europeans, in that dying nun.

Also I've opened a thread on the question of the religion being in the way, as I believe that may be a side issue? Can we temporarily move discussion of that aspect over there? I ask this as a courtesy, please. Thank you.