What’s in a disease name, anyway? Everything.

Spanish Flu. Japanese Encephalitis. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome. West Nile Virus. Wuhan Virus (and lately, the “Chinese Virus” as many have begun calling the pathogen that causes COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2). What do these names all have in common, you might ask? Well, for one thing, they were constructed not by a strict scientific nomenclature, but by […]

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