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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 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...