Which of these names for the coronavirus does the World Health Organization discourage?

One doesn't have to look back far in history to know that disease naming is a delicate matter. Poorly chosen names can stigmatize groups of people, such as the early AIDS name GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) and inaccurately assign blame to animals, such as the swine flu (which led to mass livestock slaughter despite the fact that pigs did not transmit the disease to humans). The World Health Organization takes this responsibility so seriously that it took over six weeks to give the coronavirus disease its official name of COVID-19. In the meantime, use of the unofficial "Wuhan virus" spread along with the virus.

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