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YES!!!

New etiologic agents are regularly added to the list of infectious diseases, particularly with the availability of nucleic acid amplification techniques for detecting and identfying otherwise non-cultivable micro-organisms.

Several new factors must be taken into account:

Global travel
Lifestyles
Cyclical nature of disease trends
Sexual experimentation
Enviornment
Ethnicity
Recreational drugs
Over-usage of antibiotics

For a list of new diseases discovered in the last 20 years:

here

and also here

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