greybeard
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World Health Organization has released guidelines for the future naming of new diseases. Names like German Measles, Legionaire's Disease, Swine flu, bird flu, or even names denoting where the disease began, like Ebola (first discovered in the Ebola River Basin)
are derogatory and cause financial, economic and human embarrassment to the people of those regions and to the people who raise those animals and I guess the primates are gwtting their wittle feelings hurt when they hear things like Monkey Flu. Nor can they be named after people, like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,or Chagas disease.
Some people need to chug on over to mamby pamy land get themselves a dose of self confidence....
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/not ... seases/en/
Lord, please save us from our own stupidity.
are derogatory and cause financial, economic and human embarrassment to the people of those regions and to the people who raise those animals and I guess the primates are gwtting their wittle feelings hurt when they hear things like Monkey Flu. Nor can they be named after people, like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,or Chagas disease.
Some people need to chug on over to mamby pamy land get themselves a dose of self confidence....
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/not ... seases/en/
"In recent years, several new human infectious diseases have emerged. The use of names such as 'swine flu' and 'Middle East Respiratory Syndrome' has had unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities or economic sectors," says Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security, WHO. "This may seem like a trivial issue to some, but disease names really do matter to the people who are directly affected. We've seen certain disease names provoke a backlash against members of particular religious or ethnic communities, create unjustified barriers to travel, commerce and trade, and trigger needless slaughtering of food animals. This can have serious consequences for peoples' lives and livelihoods."
Diseases are often given common names by people outside of the scientific community. Once disease names are established in common usage through the Internet and social media, they are difficult to change, even if an inappropriate name is being used. Therefore, it is important that whoever first reports on a newly identified human disease uses an appropriate name that is scientifically sound and socially acceptable.
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).
Lord, please save us from our own stupidity.