'Certainly use of this term by him and others even in the last couple of weeks have led to a noticeable incline in hate incidents that we are seeing,' one expert said
It is caused by a strain of new coronavirus that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. announced new guidelines
for how it would do so, clarifying then that disease names should not focus in on geographic locations, the names of people or animals or particular cultural traits . Instead, disease names should include the year of first detection and descriptions of the general symptoms caused or bodily systems affected as well as the associated environment and season in which it appears and its severity.
“In recent years, several new human infectious diseases have emerged. The use of names such as ‘swine flu’ and ‘Middle East Respiratory Syndrome’ has had unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities or economic sectors,” Dr. Keiji Fukuda, then the assistant director-general for health security at WHO, said in May 2015 when the new guidelines were announced.
“This may seem like a trivial issue to some, but disease names really do matter to the people who are directly affected,” Fukuda continued. “We’ve seen certain disease names provoke a backlash against members of particular religious or ethnic communities, create unjustified barriers to travel, commerce and trade, and trigger needless slaughtering of food animals. This can have serious consequences for peoples’ lives and livelihoods.
“Ethnicity is not what causes the novel coronavirus,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said at a congressional hearing in February.
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