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

[dave at WILTON.NET]

Novel = new

It's one the microbiologists haven't seen before, recently jumped from animals to humans.


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<< ... what's the deal with <novel> in <(novel) coronavirus>? What does it signify in medical nomenclature? >> Hmm ...  nov-el ... *Nov*ember *el*ection?!?  (From China with Love)

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