COVID-19: How World Health Organization Names New Infectious Diseases?[Read Guidelines]

The peculiar official name given to the Coronavirus disease— COVID-19, stems from a lot of thought and deliberation made in light of the 2015 World Health Organization guidelines on "Best Practices for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases". The 2015 guidelines discourage the naming of a disease after the place of its alleged origin, causative species of animal, industry,...