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Yeah it should have been called Kansas Flu. That pandemic was one of the more disastrous aspects of the multifaceted disaster that was Wilson's dishonest entry
by jessaustin 5y ago
Yeah it should have been called Kansas Flu. That pandemic was one of the more disastrous aspects of the multifaceted disaster that was Wilson's dishonest entry into WWI.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoFYI, The WHO "best practices for naming new human infectious diseases" (2015) are the reason why COVID-19 has that name, not any Geographically-linked name. Times have moved on since the "Spanish" flu. 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/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...