WHO Guidelines on Naming Diseases Are Well-Meaning, Sensible — But Kind of Boring

May 18, 2015

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Dr. Paul Sax ponders the new WHO recommendations for naming diseases in HIV and ID Observations.

The World Health Organization recently issued recommendations for naming new diseases. Are they just practicing a particularly overzealous form of political correctness? In the latest HIV and ID Observations blog post, Dr. Paul Sax discusses the naming convention and finds poetry in the nonpathogenic protozoan Iodamoeba bütschlii.