[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Chris Waigl]

Since 2015, WHO disease naming guidelines strongly discourage naming after
geographic locations, people's names, animal species etc.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_HSE_FOS_15.1_eng.pdf


Chris

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:01 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Wuhan flu"
> IMHO, the catchiest (no pun intended) moniker is <(the) Wuhan flu>.
> (Something-OTY, fer shrrr.)
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