Talk:Wuhan virus

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Regarding the claim that it's a "neutral" term, the WHO Best Practices for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases specifically advise against including geographic locations in names with the aim to minimize unnecessary negative impact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups. In other words, regardless of the actual geographic origin, it's not a neutral term. Bakkster Man (talk) 16:08, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Xenophobic? But no other pathogen named for place of origin is?
What is special about wuhanvirus? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.6.223.50 (talk) 16:31, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * The fact is mentioned in the linked article. The reason is that pathogens aren't named after places of origin any more. It's now more widely appreciated that naming after a place results in some degree of stigmatisation of that place. So the people who in this climate insist on using the locality-derived name are the people who don't feel that such stigmatisation is a bad thing. – Uanfala (talk) 20:48, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Why xenophobia, when there exists Japanese Encephalitis Virus recognised by WHO?
We should name covid as China SARS since it originated from China, when we have no issues naming other diseases on other countries. 2405:204:2191:69C6:9D8E:B8BE:861E:5BB3 (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * International standards for virus naming conventions now agree that location-based names or nationality-based names are inappropriate. And we follow those conventions on Wikipedia. Japanese Encephalitis virus is an older virus, named before those international naming conventions were accepted. As an aside, JEV actually probably evolved from viruses in Malaysia and so the name is an inaccurate holdover. We can do better, and we strive to do better on Wikipedia. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 15:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)