Reply To: Source for not saying the word “cancer?”

Euphemisms such as “sagi nahar” have fallen out of use – that’s not an answer.

They’ve referred to ‘the Gezeira’, ‘the Milchama’ and the like.
Oh, I thought “the Milchama” was just easier for Yiddish-speakers than “World War II.”
I’ve actually never heard of “the Gezeira” – what is it?

We find a common reference to a disease of דבר אחר,
‘something else’, which is akin to ‘Yenne Machlah’.

I’ve not heard of that either. Doesn’t דבר אחר usually refer to pigs,
which are not an evil that might affect us?