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The term culture-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are indigenously considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a form of vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels. CSS is an autoimmune condition that affects the small blood vessels. CSS can cause asthma and increased eosinophils (a type of white blood cell). Churg-Strauss syndrome is also known as allergic granulomatosis.