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Just in one single section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus#Classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus#Classification we find Norwalk viru
by areyousure 7y ago
Just in one single section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus#Classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus#Classification we find Norwalk virus (its original namesake), Southampton virus, Bristol virus, Lordsdale virus, Toronto virus, Mexico virus, Hawaii virus, Snow Mountain virus, US95/96-US strain, and Farmington Hills virus.
You can go on and on and on with examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_encephalitis_orthobunyavirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_encephalitis_orthob... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Crosse_encephalitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Crosse_encephalitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_encephalitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_encephalitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_ebolavirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_ebolavirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borna_disease_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borna_disease_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxsackievirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxsackievirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_hemorrhagic_fever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_hemorrhagic_fever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langat_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langat_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyasanur_Forest_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyasanur_Forest_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkhurma_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkhurma_virus
- hellofunk 7y agoThe world health organization changed its guidelines in 2015: https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/naming-new-diseases/en/ https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/naming-new-di... Of course older diseases would not likely have their names changed.
- areyousure 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengla_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengla_virus (2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombali_ebolavirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombali_ebolavirus (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klosneuvirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klosneuvirus (2017) Brazilian Marseillevirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26978387 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26978387 (2016) Port-Miou virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661300/ (2015)
- nl 7y agoNone of these are common-usage disease names, which the WHO advice applies to: As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms. https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-diseases/en/ https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...