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The world health organization changed its guidelines in 2015: https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/naming-new-diseases/en/ https://www.who.int/topics
by hellofunk 7y ago
The 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 agoThe WHO itself posts recommendations for the composition of influenza vaccines: https://www.fludb.org/brc/vaccineRecommend.spg?decorator=influenza https://www.fludb.org/brc/vaccineRecommend.spg?decorator=inf... For the Northern Hemisphere this flu season they recommend strains like A/Brisbane/02/2018(H1N1), A/Kansas/14/2017(H3N2), B/Colorado/06/2017, and B/Phuket/3073/2013.
- nl 7y agoThose are virus strain identifier names, not disease common names. IN that case the disease is called influenza. The WHO advice applies to the common usage: 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...
- hellofunk 7y agoYou are referring to a much different subject than the parent I was responding to, which was about the renaming to COVID-19.