The current name for the new virus is likely temporary, and it's hard to come up with a good name since scientists are still learning about, according to a researcher
A man passes by an informational signage about the coronavirus, at a hospital in Bogor, near Jakarta, Indonesia February 3, 2020, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken February 3, 2020. “Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?” said Trevor Hoppe, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who has studied the history of disease names.
Coronavirus is the umbrella term for a large group of viruses, including ones that can cause the common cold. But that can sometimes be wrong or misleading. The 1918 pandemic was called Spanish flu, though researchers don't think Spain is where it actually started. Hoppe noted that AIDS, when it first emerged in the early 1980s, was called “gay-related immune deficiency."
Demand for pork plunged in 2009 with so-called swine flu, first identified in a boy who lived on a pig farm in Mexico — even though it wasn't spread through eating pork.
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