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The WHO itself posts recommendations for the composition of influenza vaccines: https://www.fludb.org/brc/vaccineRecommend.spg?decorator=influenza https://www.f
by areyousure 7y ago
The 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.