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The world health organization changed its guidelines in 2015:

https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/naming-new-di...

Of course older diseases would not likely have their names changed.





None of these are common-usage disease names, which the WHO advice applies to:

As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...




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