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It became outdated as soon as China's Foreign Minister Zhao Lijian began their propaganda.
by busymom0 7y ago
It became outdated as soon as China's Foreign Minister Zhao Lijian began their propaganda.
- Kiro 7y agoNo, it became outdated when WHO revised their guidelines in 2015: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_HSE_FOS_15.1_eng.pdf https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_... https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-diseases/en/ https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d... "Terms that should be avoided in disease names include geographic locations (e.g. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Rift Valley fever), people’s names (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), species of animal or food (e.g. swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox), cultural, population, industry or occupational references (e.g. legionnaires), and terms that incite undue fear (e.g. unknown, fatal, epidemic)."
- busymom0 7y agoThe same WHO whose Director had been lying about the virus because China was telling them to? On 14th of Jan, WHO tweeted that the virus doesn't transmit human to human. They ignored Taiwan's warning from December that China was lying and then later claimed they never received any warning from Taiwan (despite emails showing they did). The same WHO which claimed restricting travel was not required and ineffective. Director Tedros was elected because of hard lobbying by China. No wonder he would try to save face for China. Tedros also tried to get Robert Mugabe as WHO's goodwill ambassador: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41702662 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41702662
- Kiro 7y agoRegardless I can assure you that even the US is following WHO's advice on naming diseases so not sure what you're trying to say here.