to continue to name infectious diseases for the places they were thought to originate. Might hurt someone’s feelings.
Infectious diseases throughout history have been named for geographic locations where they were thought to have originated: Spanish flu (although there is some evidence it should have been named the Kansas Flu), West Nile virus, MERS ( Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), Zika and Ebola, to name a few.
I am sure people from Connecticut are distraught about being blamed for Lyme Disease. The Swedish people must be protesting “Stockholm Syndrome”. And you can bet the ASPCA will eventually try to get “Swine Flu” and “Avian Flu” stricken from the vocabulary.
We need to get more sensitive and woke.