History shows us that the Spanish Flu was named because of the highest ‘known’ number of infections there, not where it originated from – this is why we don’t name by countries, cultures or l
World Health Organisation best practices for naming new human infectious diseases with the aim to minimize unnecessary negativeimpact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.It lists specific categories that the name may not include. As we are now...
