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That's also considered unacceptable, and the reason variants are now assigned sequential names from the phonetic alphabet, hence "Delta Variant".
by jon-wood 5y ago
That's also considered unacceptable, and the reason variants are now assigned sequential names from the phonetic alphabet, hence "Delta Variant".
- defaultprimate 5y agoZika Ebola Lyme MERS West Nile Virus Marburg Virus Guinea Worm German Measles Ross River Fever Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Norovirus Or for a complete list of thousands, simply look up toponymic diseases
- krallja 5y agoGerman measles is more commonly called rubella
- javagram 5y ago2015: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/discovered-disease-who-has-new-rules-avoiding-offensive-names https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/discovered-disease-w... > The World Health Organization (WHO) mostly works to reduce the physical toll of disease. But last week it turned to another kind of harm: the insult and stigma inflicted by diseases named for people, places, and animals. Among the existing monikers that its new guidelines “for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases” would discourage: Ebola, swine flu, Rift Valley Fever, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and monkey pox.