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What's your opinion on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus Discovered i
by lovehashbrowns 7y ago
What's your opinion on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus
Discovered in 1993 near the Canyon del Muerte on the Navajo Reservation, it was originally named the Muerto Canyon hantavirus, in keeping with the convention for naming new pathogens.[2] However, the Navajo Nation objected to the name in 1994.[3] It was also near the Four Corners point in the United States, so the virologists then tried naming it the "Four Corners virus". The name was changed after local residents raised objections.[4] In frustration, the virologists changed it to Sin Nombre, meaning "without a name" in Spanish.
Was that the Chinese government also pressuring people into not wanting to use the common name? Or is it that using the location in the name of a disease just kind of a jerk-thing to do?